1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,834 --> 00:00:08,318 [LOW RUMBLING SOUND EFFECT] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:08,353 --> 00:00:09,423 [RADIO GLITCHES, STATIC] 5 00:00:09,457 --> 00:00:12,529 [MAN SINGING JINGLE] 6 00:00:18,466 --> 00:00:21,331 [CARS WHOOSHING] 7 00:00:31,376 --> 00:00:32,411 WOMAN INTERVIEWER: Have you heard 8 00:00:32,446 --> 00:00:33,412 ofArrested Development? 9 00:00:37,865 --> 00:00:39,591 -Arrested Development? -Arrested Development... 10 00:00:39,625 --> 00:00:40,937 -Arrested Development! -No. 11 00:00:40,971 --> 00:00:42,387 -No... -No. 12 00:00:42,421 --> 00:00:43,905 -Nope. -No. 13 00:00:43,940 --> 00:00:45,321 -No. -BOTH: [IN TANDEM] Nope! 14 00:00:45,355 --> 00:00:46,598 Never heard of it. 15 00:00:46,632 --> 00:00:48,324 I've heard of it, but I really don't know anything about it. 16 00:00:48,358 --> 00:00:49,670 Tell me about it, what is it? 17 00:00:49,704 --> 00:00:52,466 It's a TV show. I think. 18 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:54,054 I think I watched it a couple of times. 19 00:00:54,088 --> 00:00:55,124 Who's in it? 20 00:00:55,158 --> 00:00:56,987 Was it on HBO or something like that? 21 00:00:57,022 --> 00:00:58,610 I understand it was a pretty good show... 22 00:00:58,644 --> 00:01:01,751 But they canceled it! Yeah... 23 00:01:13,901 --> 00:01:16,283 I am seriously sitting here, being interviewed on a show... 24 00:01:16,317 --> 00:01:18,112 -[CHUCKLES] -...because I love it so much. 25 00:01:18,147 --> 00:01:20,632 I don't remember ever laughing as hard 26 00:01:20,666 --> 00:01:22,599 at anything on television. 27 00:01:22,634 --> 00:01:24,946 It's just the funniest show I've ever seen. Ever. 28 00:01:24,981 --> 00:01:28,053 It's my favorite show. Ever. Ever! 29 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:30,400 Arrested Development, across all borders, 30 00:01:30,435 --> 00:01:31,539 is hilarious. 31 00:01:31,574 --> 00:01:33,369 Yeah, if you're watching an episode, and it doesn't 32 00:01:33,403 --> 00:01:34,577 seem funny, 33 00:01:34,611 --> 00:01:37,097 then you know there's something wrong with you. 34 00:01:37,131 --> 00:01:39,858 It's getting to laugh at rich people for being stupid. 35 00:01:39,892 --> 00:01:41,446 -[CHUCKLES] -It's brilliant. 36 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:42,826 Revolutionary. 37 00:01:42,861 --> 00:01:45,208 People were not ready for this show at all. 38 00:01:45,243 --> 00:01:47,417 You have to be forewarned for this kind of brilliance. 39 00:01:47,452 --> 00:01:48,418 True story. 40 00:01:53,182 --> 00:01:55,391 Um... 41 00:01:55,425 --> 00:01:57,531 Neil, Jeff... 42 00:01:57,565 --> 00:01:58,877 [SIGHS] 43 00:02:01,259 --> 00:02:03,226 I created a show called Arrested Development. 44 00:02:03,261 --> 00:02:06,056 Of which there are more, 45 00:02:06,091 --> 00:02:08,576 um, fans, in this movie 46 00:02:09,888 --> 00:02:13,547 than there are outside of this movie. 47 00:02:13,581 --> 00:02:15,583 I'm Joe Russo. My brother Anthony. 48 00:02:15,618 --> 00:02:17,861 We directed the, uh, pilot. 49 00:02:17,896 --> 00:02:20,381 You know, the show came about in a unique time 50 00:02:20,416 --> 00:02:22,521 in television history. 51 00:02:22,556 --> 00:02:25,214 You know, I had worked a long time in situation comedy, 52 00:02:25,248 --> 00:02:27,526 and sitcoms had become stuck. 53 00:02:27,561 --> 00:02:29,563 And it was sort of born in the wake of 54 00:02:29,597 --> 00:02:32,393 the rise of HBO and HBO's re-invention of... 55 00:02:32,428 --> 00:02:33,843 Of what television is. 56 00:02:33,877 --> 00:02:35,638 I did a show called Everything's Relative. 57 00:02:35,672 --> 00:02:38,744 Which was in many ways a precursor to Arrested Development. 58 00:02:38,779 --> 00:02:40,263 It was about a family that was completely 59 00:02:40,298 --> 00:02:42,990 in-meshed with itself and obsessed with itself. 60 00:02:43,024 --> 00:02:46,890 And we did four episodes, and it was trashed by critics. 61 00:02:46,925 --> 00:02:48,547 And, uh... And it died. 62 00:02:48,582 --> 00:02:51,930 But I... I... [STUTTERS] It started to play with the form 63 00:02:51,964 --> 00:02:54,104 that I had come up in. Having worked on 64 00:02:54,139 --> 00:02:55,382 The Golden Girls and things like that. 65 00:02:55,416 --> 00:02:58,039 A guy named David Nevins was at NBC when we did it. 66 00:02:58,074 --> 00:02:59,248 I'm David Nevins, 67 00:02:59,282 --> 00:03:00,939 I'm the president of Imagine Television. 68 00:03:00,973 --> 00:03:04,425 So when he became president at Imagine Television, 69 00:03:04,460 --> 00:03:07,221 his boss Ron Howard told him he wanted to do a show 70 00:03:07,256 --> 00:03:08,464 that was kind of multi-media. 71 00:03:08,498 --> 00:03:13,262 And it would have this sorta fast-paced, loose, home movie 72 00:03:13,296 --> 00:03:15,091 slash documentary style. 73 00:03:15,125 --> 00:03:17,749 It was a very unformed idea at that point. 74 00:03:17,783 --> 00:03:20,993 -Nevins called us... -And we started 75 00:03:21,028 --> 00:03:22,063 throwing around ideas. 76 00:03:22,098 --> 00:03:23,755 He said "Come in, I want to talk to you guys. 77 00:03:23,789 --> 00:03:25,446 There's this show that we're working on that's 78 00:03:25,481 --> 00:03:26,930 "an idea that Ron had." 79 00:03:26,965 --> 00:03:32,108 I had this notion that it should look and feel and sound 80 00:03:32,142 --> 00:03:34,766 different than, 81 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,354 you know, what you were traditionally seeing 82 00:03:36,388 --> 00:03:38,045 in half-hour television comedy. 83 00:03:38,079 --> 00:03:40,565 They had said that Ron wanted to sort of reinvent 84 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:41,911 the half-hour. 85 00:03:41,945 --> 00:03:44,672 And we had this idea, that we wanted it to feel very gorilla... 86 00:03:44,707 --> 00:03:46,433 That was one of the reasons we chose the Russo's, 87 00:03:46,467 --> 00:03:48,400 'cause they hadn't done a ton of network comedies. 88 00:03:48,435 --> 00:03:50,747 They were young, and certainly felt like they were 89 00:03:50,782 --> 00:03:52,991 gonna be in tune with that gorilla filmmaking style. 90 00:03:53,025 --> 00:03:54,820 They could get a lot done very, very quickly when 91 00:03:54,855 --> 00:03:56,063 they needed to. 92 00:03:56,097 --> 00:03:58,445 We had shot our first credit card movie 93 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:00,757 for $35,000. So we really knew 94 00:04:00,792 --> 00:04:02,449 sort of, gorilla filmmaking tactics. 95 00:04:02,483 --> 00:04:04,174 Right from the beginning, 96 00:04:04,209 --> 00:04:06,660 that was how we wanted to do it. And part of the reason 97 00:04:06,694 --> 00:04:09,041 that we hired them is 'cause we knew that they would be comfortable with that. 98 00:04:09,076 --> 00:04:10,180 And then I... 99 00:04:10,215 --> 00:04:11,458 Well, I met with a few writers, 100 00:04:11,492 --> 00:04:12,976 and one of them was Mitch Hurwitz. 101 00:04:13,011 --> 00:04:15,013 Who I'd worked with before on Everything's Relative. 102 00:04:15,047 --> 00:04:16,980 I always had a feeling about Mitch. 103 00:04:17,015 --> 00:04:19,949 And Mitch really, really liked the idea. 104 00:04:19,983 --> 00:04:21,985 He'd kind of come up through traditional sitcoms, 105 00:04:22,020 --> 00:04:25,230 but I always felt that he was probably the best bet to be 106 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:27,612 the next great comedy voice. 107 00:04:27,646 --> 00:04:29,855 And he had this... Started talking about, 108 00:04:29,890 --> 00:04:31,857 in a second meeting, this family. 109 00:04:32,548 --> 00:04:33,790 Of his. 110 00:04:33,825 --> 00:04:36,345 We started thinking, "Well, maybe [STUTTERS] 111 00:04:36,379 --> 00:04:37,518 "it should be about a family." 112 00:04:37,553 --> 00:04:41,729 He wanted to do a highly dysfunctional extended family. 113 00:04:41,764 --> 00:04:44,007 With extreme characters. 114 00:04:44,042 --> 00:04:47,217 And David Nevins suggested, "Maybe there's some element 115 00:04:47,252 --> 00:04:48,736 "that pushes them together." 116 00:04:48,771 --> 00:04:51,014 My brother and sister-in-law moved in with me, 117 00:04:51,049 --> 00:04:53,569 so we talked about sort of adult siblings coming together. 118 00:04:53,603 --> 00:04:55,536 And I thought that was pretty great. 119 00:04:55,571 --> 00:04:57,366 That was the time of Enron 120 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,506 and all these accounting frauds. 121 00:04:59,540 --> 00:05:01,059 And I actually worried at the time 122 00:05:01,093 --> 00:05:03,061 I'm like "Well, will this be out of date 123 00:05:03,095 --> 00:05:04,856 "by the time we get on the air?" [LAUGHS] 124 00:05:04,890 --> 00:05:06,754 You know? Will there be no more accounting fraud? 125 00:05:06,789 --> 00:05:07,859 And I even said, like, "You could even have 126 00:05:07,893 --> 00:05:09,619 "a narrator if you want." 127 00:05:09,654 --> 00:05:12,622 Ron instantly said, "I like that guy Mitch." And, uh, 128 00:05:13,382 --> 00:05:14,452 we were off and running. 129 00:05:17,558 --> 00:05:20,181 Writing the pilot was the biggest challenge 130 00:05:20,216 --> 00:05:21,873 I ever had up until that point. 131 00:05:21,907 --> 00:05:24,531 Mitch came back with this script, and the story was, 132 00:05:24,565 --> 00:05:28,051 it was just so funny. And it was so unusual. 133 00:05:28,086 --> 00:05:31,089 I kind of wanted to do a show about a family that 134 00:05:31,123 --> 00:05:35,024 because of their wealth, they hadn't developed 135 00:05:35,058 --> 00:05:36,405 as human beings. 136 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:39,718 What Mitch loves to write... is just people being so wrong, 137 00:05:39,753 --> 00:05:43,412 wrong-headed, and yet so believing that they're right. 138 00:05:43,446 --> 00:05:45,483 I'm always fascinated when I sort of go back and look 139 00:05:45,517 --> 00:05:48,900 at the pilot, of the density of the storytelling in it. 140 00:05:48,934 --> 00:05:52,006 I don't really know how... How close the Bluths are 141 00:05:52,041 --> 00:05:54,561 to his family, but, you know, you listen to him talk about it 142 00:05:54,595 --> 00:05:56,425 and it seems like they're not too far off. 143 00:05:56,459 --> 00:05:59,462 And he graphed it onto his childhood in Orange County... 144 00:05:59,497 --> 00:06:02,085 There are characters that are represented from my real life. 145 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,225 -In there. -I knew his family story, 146 00:06:04,260 --> 00:06:06,331 and a lot of that had been in Everything's Relative... 147 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:09,230 I was from a family that was 148 00:06:09,265 --> 00:06:11,474 somewhat overprotective. 149 00:06:11,509 --> 00:06:12,889 I did have a cousin, 150 00:06:12,924 --> 00:06:15,098 she did go to schools that didn't have grades. 151 00:06:15,133 --> 00:06:18,136 You know, gave out crocodiles and things like that. 152 00:06:18,170 --> 00:06:20,449 And Mitch sold, I don't know if he told you this... 153 00:06:20,483 --> 00:06:23,762 My brother and I had started a cookie business when we 154 00:06:23,797 --> 00:06:25,315 were kids. Called The Chipyard. 155 00:06:25,350 --> 00:06:27,456 Down at the pier in Orange County. 156 00:06:27,490 --> 00:06:29,665 And there's actually one in Boston still. 157 00:06:29,699 --> 00:06:32,599 And that kind of became the banana stand. 158 00:06:32,633 --> 00:06:34,394 You know, Mitch just has, once he gets going 159 00:06:34,428 --> 00:06:35,912 on something, he has a very like, fertile mind. 160 00:06:35,947 --> 00:06:37,017 Things started crackling. 161 00:06:37,051 --> 00:06:39,468 And it came together very quickly. 162 00:06:39,502 --> 00:06:42,229 I ended up doing 30 drafts of the pilot. 163 00:06:42,263 --> 00:06:44,576 The great thing about the long script was that it really 164 00:06:44,611 --> 00:06:46,751 allowed us to understand what Mitch was thinking. 165 00:06:46,785 --> 00:06:49,512 Every character had three things. 166 00:06:49,547 --> 00:06:52,135 I think that that's one of the things that is so 167 00:06:52,170 --> 00:06:53,654 appealing about the show. 168 00:06:53,689 --> 00:06:55,863 So anyway, I had this script that's 169 00:06:55,898 --> 00:06:58,625 70 pages in its tightest, tightest form. 170 00:06:58,659 --> 00:07:00,799 There were all these backstories for everybody... 171 00:07:00,834 --> 00:07:03,077 The fun of the show, and the charm of the show 172 00:07:03,112 --> 00:07:06,529 really came about in that initial development phase 173 00:07:06,564 --> 00:07:09,463 in trying to condense that down to 30-some pages. 174 00:07:09,498 --> 00:07:12,190 I first came across the script when my, uh... 175 00:07:12,224 --> 00:07:13,743 My good friend Mitch Hurwitz sent it to me. 176 00:07:13,778 --> 00:07:17,644 I thought it was an insanely crazy, funny script. 177 00:07:17,678 --> 00:07:19,300 And I thought that they would never make it 178 00:07:19,335 --> 00:07:20,612 in a million years. 179 00:07:20,647 --> 00:07:22,787 ...and turned it in, and then the network like picked it up 180 00:07:22,821 --> 00:07:23,857 that afternoon. 181 00:07:28,137 --> 00:07:30,726 We knew that it was different by, 182 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,866 obviously, the cast that was assembled. 183 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:35,178 There's never been a cast 184 00:07:35,213 --> 00:07:39,735 that was better, sharper, funnier... 185 00:07:39,769 --> 00:07:42,185 Casting, more than anything, really 186 00:07:42,220 --> 00:07:44,325 defines a television show. 187 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,501 All of it, all of it came out of Mitch Hurwitz. 188 00:07:47,536 --> 00:07:50,504 Great TV writers like Mitch really adapt to who they 189 00:07:50,539 --> 00:07:53,196 end up with as the actors for their show. 190 00:07:53,231 --> 00:07:57,028 It's hard to cast, you know, three out of five parts right. 191 00:07:57,062 --> 00:07:58,892 But, you know, he got nine for nine. 192 00:08:04,380 --> 00:08:06,831 This is a nice place, you guys live in the back? 193 00:08:06,865 --> 00:08:09,074 MALE INTERVIEWER: What's the first word that comes to your mind? 194 00:08:09,109 --> 00:08:11,352 Bateman. Is a [BLEEP] God. 195 00:08:11,387 --> 00:08:13,044 That's a sentence, that's not a word. 196 00:08:15,149 --> 00:08:17,358 Today you're going to be talking to Jason Bateman, 197 00:08:17,393 --> 00:08:19,533 who played Michael Bluth. 198 00:08:19,568 --> 00:08:21,328 -I love Michael! -Michael! 199 00:08:21,362 --> 00:08:22,812 -Michael. -Michael! 200 00:08:22,847 --> 00:08:25,056 He's a single dad who's lost his wife. 201 00:08:25,090 --> 00:08:28,577 Jason Bateman, who knew this guy was that funny? 202 00:08:28,611 --> 00:08:31,856 Michael Bluth is sort of the glue that holds the 203 00:08:32,304 --> 00:08:33,789 show together. 204 00:08:33,823 --> 00:08:36,067 BATEMAN: He was the least eccentric 205 00:08:36,101 --> 00:08:40,174 of the family. Probably the most appropriate to 206 00:08:40,209 --> 00:08:42,107 sort of, channel the show through. 207 00:08:42,142 --> 00:08:43,937 Which was the hardest thing to find for the show, was the 208 00:08:43,971 --> 00:08:46,318 center of the show. The camera friendly. 209 00:08:46,353 --> 00:08:49,080 Uh, network friendly... Who could deliver 210 00:08:49,114 --> 00:08:50,944 a badass joke. 211 00:08:50,978 --> 00:08:52,911 RUSSO: I remember seeing Jason Bateman's name 212 00:08:52,946 --> 00:08:54,534 on the casting sheet. 213 00:08:54,568 --> 00:08:58,158 But there was a concern on the part of the network and studio because 214 00:08:58,192 --> 00:09:00,954 he had been in a series of pilots that hadn't made it 215 00:09:00,988 --> 00:09:02,058 to the air. 216 00:09:02,093 --> 00:09:05,475 I don't know how many people they went through 217 00:09:05,510 --> 00:09:09,169 before they landed on me, but, uh, I don't need to hear it. 218 00:09:09,203 --> 00:09:10,964 I don't want to know what you know. 219 00:09:10,998 --> 00:09:14,657 So their feeling was that he had this, um, baggage of 220 00:09:14,692 --> 00:09:17,487 unsuccessful shows in his recent history. 221 00:09:17,522 --> 00:09:19,800 Didn't really know that much about him. But I knew that 222 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:21,422 he did a lot of pilots every year. 223 00:09:21,457 --> 00:09:23,873 And I was going to be auditioning for another show 224 00:09:23,908 --> 00:09:26,704 that Mitch Hurwitz was also producing the following day. 225 00:09:26,738 --> 00:09:29,016 Something that looks like it was definitely gonna go 226 00:09:29,051 --> 00:09:32,364 on the air, and that I'd be more sort of, suited for... 227 00:09:32,399 --> 00:09:34,263 So I went in and I auditioned for it... 228 00:09:34,297 --> 00:09:36,092 -...and he killed it! -We're like "[BLEEP] 229 00:09:36,127 --> 00:09:37,922 "We've got our guy! We've got Michael Bluth!" 230 00:09:37,956 --> 00:09:40,614 And Mitch follows me out of the reading room... 231 00:09:40,649 --> 00:09:42,754 And I remember running out into the hallway saying, 232 00:09:42,789 --> 00:09:45,619 "This, right? You like this right? 233 00:09:45,654 --> 00:09:47,000 "Don't come in tomorrow for that other thing." 234 00:09:47,034 --> 00:09:49,692 I said "Great! That's my ride, I gotta go." 235 00:09:52,315 --> 00:09:53,523 [CREW MEMBER SHOUTS] 236 00:09:53,558 --> 00:09:55,042 CREWMAN: Don't mind that. 237 00:09:55,077 --> 00:09:57,148 How do I not mind that? 238 00:09:57,182 --> 00:09:59,322 I think I had the most, you know, serious laughs 239 00:09:59,357 --> 00:10:01,290 where I almost hurt myself with Gob. 240 00:10:01,324 --> 00:10:02,602 -Gob. -Gob! 241 00:10:02,636 --> 00:10:04,258 George Oscar Bluth. 242 00:10:07,917 --> 00:10:11,403 I play Will Arnett. My name is Gob Bluth. 243 00:10:11,438 --> 00:10:14,234 Gob stands for, uh, George Oscar Bluth. 244 00:10:14,268 --> 00:10:15,925 Everyone always called him Gob [PHONETIC]. 245 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:17,133 Gob! 246 00:10:17,168 --> 00:10:19,515 Couldn't cast Gob and we needed that kind of, macho 247 00:10:19,549 --> 00:10:22,345 end of the spectrum to balance off Tony Hale 248 00:10:22,380 --> 00:10:24,382 on the other end, and put Michael in the middle. 249 00:10:24,416 --> 00:10:25,970 I was an actor living in New York and 250 00:10:26,004 --> 00:10:28,282 they were looking for the part of Gob, 251 00:10:28,317 --> 00:10:31,665 I was looking for a job... [LAUGHS] It was perfect! 252 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:33,943 I almost believe, like, that's who Will Arnett is 253 00:10:33,978 --> 00:10:36,325 just too true a performance. 254 00:10:36,359 --> 00:10:40,294 Will Arnett as Gob took that role to a level I don't think 255 00:10:40,329 --> 00:10:42,262 anybody knew it was gonna go to. 256 00:10:42,296 --> 00:10:44,851 You know, it was such a specifically written thing, 257 00:10:44,885 --> 00:10:46,715 and I thought that would make it easier for actors... 258 00:10:46,749 --> 00:10:49,234 I'd done a pilot for CBS, 259 00:10:49,269 --> 00:10:52,928 it went to series, and in that, between that time, 260 00:10:52,962 --> 00:10:54,861 my character was written off the show. 261 00:10:54,895 --> 00:10:56,276 I remember my manager calling me and saying 262 00:10:56,310 --> 00:10:57,449 "You gotta read this, you gotta read this!" 263 00:10:57,484 --> 00:10:59,037 And I said "I'm not going to do it. 264 00:10:59,072 --> 00:11:01,419 "TV already broke my heart." 265 00:11:01,453 --> 00:11:06,251 You know? And, uh, I'm not gonna go down the aisle again 266 00:11:06,286 --> 00:11:07,977 with lady television. 267 00:11:09,392 --> 00:11:12,085 And he said, "I don't know what the [BLEEP] 268 00:11:12,119 --> 00:11:13,465 "you're talking about..." 269 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:14,570 CREWMAN: This is very professional. 270 00:11:14,604 --> 00:11:16,261 -Oh, my God! -[PEOPLE CHUCKLING] 271 00:11:16,296 --> 00:11:18,091 Lindsay is my favorite character. 272 00:11:18,125 --> 00:11:19,713 -Lindsay Bluth. -Lindsay! 273 00:11:22,785 --> 00:11:27,238 I'm Portia de Rossi, and I played Lindsay Bluth Funke. 274 00:11:27,272 --> 00:11:30,172 Lindsay is, um, 275 00:11:30,206 --> 00:11:32,243 the daughter of the family and... 276 00:11:32,277 --> 00:11:35,280 ...kind of a vapid twit. 277 00:11:35,315 --> 00:11:39,077 Portia's part was written the opposite, in a way, 278 00:11:39,112 --> 00:11:40,251 of what Portia played. 279 00:11:40,285 --> 00:11:43,426 She was very, um, self obsessed. 280 00:11:43,461 --> 00:11:45,670 She wears like, ostrich skinned boots yet 281 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:47,707 somehow she pretends she wants to save the trees 282 00:11:47,741 --> 00:11:49,053 and help the environment. 283 00:11:49,087 --> 00:11:52,021 dE ROSSI: Not terribly caring about anyone in her family 284 00:11:52,056 --> 00:11:53,782 or anyone around her. 285 00:11:53,816 --> 00:11:58,959 Then she is only focused on what's going to get her some 286 00:11:58,994 --> 00:12:00,823 loving, basically. 287 00:12:00,858 --> 00:12:03,239 And she was the actress that was funny enough 288 00:12:03,274 --> 00:12:05,655 and special enough that made me change the writing. 289 00:12:05,690 --> 00:12:07,830 Which I hadn't done with the other parts. 290 00:12:07,865 --> 00:12:09,901 Very underrated. Portia de Rossi, like, 291 00:12:09,936 --> 00:12:11,903 rocks my socks off. 292 00:12:13,180 --> 00:12:14,250 CREWMAN: Professional here. 293 00:12:14,285 --> 00:12:16,701 Oh, crap! 294 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:19,255 I really think my favorite character is Buster. 295 00:12:19,290 --> 00:12:20,981 -Buster! -Buster. 296 00:12:21,016 --> 00:12:22,742 Byron Buster Bluth. 297 00:12:26,504 --> 00:12:30,611 Buster is the youngest brother of all the siblings 298 00:12:30,646 --> 00:12:32,579 to Michael, Gob, and Lindsay. 299 00:12:32,613 --> 00:12:35,064 And, uh, he is just 300 00:12:35,099 --> 00:12:38,171 an anxiety-ridden mama's boy? 301 00:12:38,205 --> 00:12:40,690 And no one else is really bothered to spend the time 302 00:12:40,725 --> 00:12:41,795 to break him out of it. 303 00:12:41,830 --> 00:12:43,417 Our delightful Tony Hale. 304 00:12:43,452 --> 00:12:46,835 I think one of the best descriptions of Buster was, 305 00:12:46,869 --> 00:12:49,285 "He was in the womb for 11 months." 306 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,287 He really is, like, 307 00:12:51,322 --> 00:12:53,980 the medical definition of arrested development. 308 00:12:57,673 --> 00:12:59,019 Tape came in from New York... 309 00:12:59,054 --> 00:13:00,987 ...and I remember walking into casting one day 310 00:13:01,021 --> 00:13:03,196 and Mitch was just like, so excited. "You gotta... 311 00:13:03,230 --> 00:13:05,439 "You guys gotta watch this casting tape." 312 00:13:05,474 --> 00:13:08,166 Mitch was saying once that I did something with my knees 313 00:13:08,201 --> 00:13:09,547 but the shot was only from here down, 314 00:13:09,581 --> 00:13:10,755 so they don't know what I was doing. 315 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:14,759 The video just started with him kind of rocking... 316 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:18,038 And in fact what he was doing was, he was... He was doing this massage 317 00:13:18,073 --> 00:13:19,522 that was in the script but his hands were 318 00:13:19,557 --> 00:13:22,732 out of frame. So all I saw was this... 319 00:13:22,767 --> 00:13:25,080 [IMITATING BUSTER] Hey, brother! 320 00:13:25,114 --> 00:13:27,392 -CREWMAN: Very professional. -[LAUGHS] 321 00:13:27,427 --> 00:13:28,808 Very professional. 322 00:13:31,707 --> 00:13:33,157 I'm Jeffrey Tambor, 323 00:13:33,191 --> 00:13:35,021 and I got to play two roles! 324 00:13:35,055 --> 00:13:36,885 I got to play George Sr., and I got to play his... 325 00:13:36,919 --> 00:13:39,128 His errant brother Oscar. 326 00:13:39,163 --> 00:13:41,130 You know, Jeffrey Tambor wasn't originally 327 00:13:41,165 --> 00:13:43,236 supposed to be on the show. 328 00:13:43,270 --> 00:13:46,446 You know, Mitch had a previous working relationship with Tambor. 329 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,103 We were shooting the pilot, and I had this part of 330 00:13:48,137 --> 00:13:49,690 George Sr... 331 00:13:49,725 --> 00:13:51,278 I think I was doing Hellboy 1. 332 00:13:51,313 --> 00:13:54,040 I had a month off, so I came back to the United States 333 00:13:54,074 --> 00:13:57,181 and literally, as I hit the airport 334 00:13:57,215 --> 00:13:59,045 I was re-checking my messages 335 00:13:59,079 --> 00:14:00,391 and there was a message from Mitch. 336 00:14:00,425 --> 00:14:03,118 I called Jeffrey, really the night before. 337 00:14:03,152 --> 00:14:05,430 "Would you come on it for a day and play the father?" 338 00:14:05,465 --> 00:14:07,536 "Would you come down and do this thing tomorrow?" 339 00:14:07,570 --> 00:14:09,849 And I never thought another thing about it, and then 340 00:14:09,883 --> 00:14:11,091 I got a phone call... 341 00:14:11,126 --> 00:14:13,887 And then fortunately, he said to me "I could actually see 342 00:14:13,922 --> 00:14:15,371 "doing this on a weekly basis." 343 00:14:15,406 --> 00:14:16,545 I was like, "Oh, thank God." 344 00:14:16,579 --> 00:14:19,755 George Sr., Bernie Madoff with heart. 345 00:14:19,789 --> 00:14:22,068 [LAUGHS HEARTILY] 346 00:14:22,102 --> 00:14:23,655 BATEMAN: Somebody like Jeffrey Tambor 347 00:14:23,690 --> 00:14:26,417 when he's on board, you just know it's going to be 348 00:14:26,451 --> 00:14:28,937 a very real sort of comedy. 349 00:14:28,971 --> 00:14:31,594 I always wonder how you follow up a role as iconic 350 00:14:31,629 --> 00:14:33,700 as what he played on Larry Sanders, 351 00:14:33,734 --> 00:14:36,979 and to turn around and get another show where you have 352 00:14:37,014 --> 00:14:38,394 that great a role again... 353 00:14:38,429 --> 00:14:40,051 I think Tambor's blessed. 354 00:14:40,086 --> 00:14:42,364 He really set the comedic tone for the show. 355 00:14:45,367 --> 00:14:47,024 WOMAN: Lucille is my favorite character. 356 00:14:47,058 --> 00:14:48,301 Gangy. 357 00:14:48,335 --> 00:14:51,166 -She's a raging bitch... -She's a drunk. 358 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,478 -Not a good mother. -Doesn't really care 359 00:14:53,513 --> 00:14:55,653 much what happens to the family as long as she 360 00:14:55,687 --> 00:14:57,551 still comes out on top at the end. 361 00:14:57,586 --> 00:14:59,415 Oh, she's just evil. 362 00:14:59,450 --> 00:15:01,003 [GIGGLES] That's why she's great! 363 00:15:01,038 --> 00:15:03,247 We were having a hard time casting the mother, 364 00:15:03,281 --> 00:15:05,145 and there was somebody I really wanted 365 00:15:05,180 --> 00:15:07,423 that the network wouldn't approve. 366 00:15:07,458 --> 00:15:09,632 And Sandy Grushow said to me "Mitch, this is how pilots 367 00:15:09,667 --> 00:15:11,496 "fall apart. We don't have a mother," and 368 00:15:11,531 --> 00:15:13,257 Deborah Barylski once again, the casting director said 369 00:15:13,291 --> 00:15:14,810 "Let's bring in Jessica Walter." 370 00:15:14,844 --> 00:15:17,606 And she was exactly what you see, I mean, she's just crisp 371 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,885 and tight and hilarious and mean and 372 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,612 Sandy Grushow said "Okay. She can play the mother." 373 00:15:23,646 --> 00:15:25,303 [STUTTERS] Like that. 374 00:15:25,338 --> 00:15:28,651 My grandmother was exactly like Lucille. 375 00:15:28,686 --> 00:15:30,860 Just a gold-digging evil person. 376 00:15:30,895 --> 00:15:32,759 God rest her soul. 377 00:15:38,903 --> 00:15:39,973 I don't even know how 378 00:15:40,008 --> 00:15:42,182 you describe a character like Tobias. 379 00:15:42,217 --> 00:15:45,185 I don't think anyone else could be Tobias Funke. 380 00:15:45,220 --> 00:15:47,463 You can never go wrong with David Cross. Ever. 381 00:15:48,464 --> 00:15:51,398 [CREWMAN SPEAKING] 382 00:15:51,433 --> 00:15:54,332 Why? Seems like a waste of time if people already know 383 00:15:54,367 --> 00:15:55,713 who I am. 384 00:15:55,747 --> 00:15:58,060 I love David Cross. I called him and said "Any part 385 00:15:58,095 --> 00:15:59,303 "you wanna play." 386 00:15:59,337 --> 00:16:00,890 I was first talking to Mitch about it, 387 00:16:00,925 --> 00:16:03,583 before I had even met Mitch, talking on the phone. 388 00:16:03,617 --> 00:16:05,826 And I was hoping he wouldn't say Michael Bluth. 389 00:16:05,861 --> 00:16:08,381 And I remember thinking "There's no [BLEEP] way 390 00:16:08,415 --> 00:16:11,901 "that David Cross is going to do a network television show." 391 00:16:11,936 --> 00:16:14,352 He thought about it, and he got back to me and said 392 00:16:14,387 --> 00:16:16,078 "Uh, I think I'd like to play Tobias." 393 00:16:16,113 --> 00:16:19,357 Tobias is a little bit of all of us. 394 00:16:19,392 --> 00:16:22,188 He does get the greatest lines, but at the same time, 395 00:16:22,222 --> 00:16:23,396 he's the one who carries 396 00:16:23,430 --> 00:16:25,191 probably the longest running joke. 397 00:16:25,225 --> 00:16:29,229 I've met a lot of Tobias' in my life. 398 00:16:29,264 --> 00:16:31,991 Out of all the characters he probably makes me laugh the most. 399 00:16:32,025 --> 00:16:33,509 You see a lot of them in Boston. 400 00:16:33,544 --> 00:16:34,890 [BUSTLING NOISE] He lays around the house 401 00:16:34,924 --> 00:16:37,237 all day, and he says funny lines all day long, I mean 402 00:16:37,272 --> 00:16:38,583 that's my idol. 403 00:16:38,618 --> 00:16:41,793 Some people might disagree, but I think he's a real loser. 404 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:48,938 There's something so blank slate about George Michael. 405 00:16:48,973 --> 00:16:52,942 George Michael is Michael Bluth's son... 406 00:16:52,977 --> 00:16:57,775 His mother has passed away, and he is just this struggling, 407 00:16:57,809 --> 00:17:00,191 conscious of the whole family. 408 00:17:00,226 --> 00:17:04,023 He embraces the fact that his family is kind of messed up. 409 00:17:04,057 --> 00:17:06,922 But he's so soft-spoken and good-natured that 410 00:17:06,956 --> 00:17:10,650 he can't force his conscience on anybody else. 411 00:17:10,684 --> 00:17:13,101 George Michael is the most lovable one of the Bluths. 412 00:17:13,135 --> 00:17:15,068 I mean, he's the only one that really does no wrong, 413 00:17:15,103 --> 00:17:16,656 and I think they need that one character. 414 00:17:16,690 --> 00:17:18,830 MAN: Michael Cera I had seen 415 00:17:18,865 --> 00:17:21,109 in a pilot that he'd done years before. 416 00:17:21,143 --> 00:17:23,766 It was like, the embodiment of sort of Woody Allen 417 00:17:23,801 --> 00:17:25,389 and a 12-year-old kid. 418 00:17:25,423 --> 00:17:28,047 You know, I don't know where they found Michael Cera... 419 00:17:28,081 --> 00:17:31,084 We found out he's in Brampton or something, 420 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,156 in Canada. The casting director calls me and says, 421 00:17:34,191 --> 00:17:37,780 "Great news, Michael Cera liked the script and he 422 00:17:37,815 --> 00:17:39,403 "is willing to read for this." 423 00:17:39,437 --> 00:17:42,337 And I was like, [CHUCKLES] He liked this? He's 14! 424 00:17:42,371 --> 00:17:44,925 Like, he's discriminating? 425 00:17:48,412 --> 00:17:50,345 My name is Alia Shawkat, 426 00:17:50,379 --> 00:17:52,554 I played Maeby Funke on Arrested Development. 427 00:17:52,588 --> 00:17:54,176 [BLEEPING] 428 00:17:54,211 --> 00:17:56,937 Alia I cast off a photograph. 429 00:17:56,972 --> 00:17:58,905 I was actually casting another pilot at the time, 430 00:17:58,939 --> 00:18:01,528 we were looking for a kid, and I came across this picture 431 00:18:01,563 --> 00:18:03,979 Alia, and I put it in this other pile and I just like her little 432 00:18:04,013 --> 00:18:05,946 quirky look, and her bright eyes. 433 00:18:05,981 --> 00:18:09,605 Maeby, the teenage daughter of Tobias and Lindsay... 434 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,470 She doesn't look like either of them, so 435 00:18:12,505 --> 00:18:15,370 question marks are everywhere. 436 00:18:15,404 --> 00:18:17,303 She's like a rebellious teenager who's 437 00:18:17,337 --> 00:18:18,994 street smart, just not book smart. 438 00:18:19,028 --> 00:18:22,618 She's just got that confidence through the roof, and 439 00:18:22,653 --> 00:18:23,999 nothing's gonna stop her. 440 00:18:24,033 --> 00:18:26,760 I think the narrator is like my favorite character. 441 00:18:29,487 --> 00:18:31,558 I wound up being the narrator. 442 00:18:31,593 --> 00:18:33,112 That was kind of an accident. 443 00:18:33,146 --> 00:18:34,975 Then I got kind of, corralled into it. 444 00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:36,874 But I was really glad that I, that I was. 445 00:18:36,908 --> 00:18:39,187 His voice is so pleasant to listen to. 446 00:18:39,221 --> 00:18:40,947 He's an unbelievably creative guy, 447 00:18:40,981 --> 00:18:42,362 and a very ambitious guy. 448 00:18:42,397 --> 00:18:45,538 Here's this like, unbelievably credited director, 449 00:18:45,572 --> 00:18:47,333 who's narrating this show. 450 00:18:47,367 --> 00:18:48,506 But he's not the narrator, 451 00:18:48,541 --> 00:18:51,716 it's Ron Howard talking about his show. 452 00:18:51,751 --> 00:18:54,374 Ron is like my younger brother. 453 00:18:54,409 --> 00:18:57,377 He was in favor of all the rules that we broke. 454 00:18:57,412 --> 00:19:00,346 With Arrested Development, you could have the narrator 455 00:19:00,380 --> 00:19:02,831 exposing the hypocrisy of the characters. 456 00:19:02,865 --> 00:19:05,834 Or creating little jokes by making little observations. 457 00:19:05,868 --> 00:19:07,905 He kind of almost says what you're thinking. 458 00:19:07,939 --> 00:19:10,459 Whenever he talks, you see his face. 459 00:19:10,494 --> 00:19:13,428 I never saw him, you know. He was a voiceover. 460 00:19:13,462 --> 00:19:15,844 In doing the narration, often I was doing it from 461 00:19:15,878 --> 00:19:20,089 you know, like inside the cab of the sound man's truck, 462 00:19:20,124 --> 00:19:21,815 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 463 00:19:21,850 --> 00:19:24,093 It really not only carried the plot line forward, 464 00:19:24,128 --> 00:19:26,993 but added another laugh, you know, into the mix. 465 00:19:31,929 --> 00:19:33,793 We've been huge fans of Arrested Development 466 00:19:33,827 --> 00:19:35,450 since the series premiered. 467 00:19:35,484 --> 00:19:36,554 On the very first episode... 468 00:19:36,589 --> 00:19:37,728 Oh, I got hooked. 469 00:19:37,762 --> 00:19:39,247 -Pretty much got hooked. -I was hooked. 470 00:19:39,281 --> 00:19:40,834 -Hooked. -Episode one... 471 00:19:40,869 --> 00:19:42,146 We couldn't stop watching it. 472 00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:43,699 I had this really cool teacher in high school, 473 00:19:43,734 --> 00:19:45,080 so I went up and I was chatting with him before 474 00:19:45,114 --> 00:19:47,738 class, and I saw this strange little white and orange box, 475 00:19:47,772 --> 00:19:49,084 and I was like, "What's this?" 476 00:19:49,118 --> 00:19:51,120 nd he's like, "That is the greatest show you'll ever watch." 477 00:19:51,155 --> 00:19:52,950 I'm one of those people that had a friend... 478 00:19:52,984 --> 00:19:54,779 ...who wouldn't leave me alone about it. 479 00:19:54,814 --> 00:19:56,954 "No, no, man. Just watch the pilot, man it's gonna be 480 00:19:56,988 --> 00:19:58,783 "so cool, you're gonna totally get into this..." 481 00:19:58,818 --> 00:20:00,509 My friends that would watch it would quote it to each other 482 00:20:00,544 --> 00:20:01,855 all the time throughout the day. 483 00:20:01,890 --> 00:20:03,719 -I just made him buy the DVDs. -Yes. 484 00:20:03,754 --> 00:20:04,962 Didn't even know if he'd like it. 485 00:20:04,996 --> 00:20:06,066 And I wanted to be a part of that. 486 00:20:06,101 --> 00:20:07,171 Then I heard people talking about it... 487 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:08,379 Everyone was talking about it. 488 00:20:08,414 --> 00:20:10,312 So we'd end up watching five episodes that night. 489 00:20:10,347 --> 00:20:13,281 A few episodes turned into like an eight-hour marathon. 490 00:20:13,315 --> 00:20:15,248 And by then I was completely hooked. 491 00:20:15,283 --> 00:20:16,422 I just fell in love from there. 492 00:20:16,456 --> 00:20:17,699 Instantly. 493 00:20:17,733 --> 00:20:20,633 And that was it. 494 00:20:20,667 --> 00:20:23,014 You want me to explain the plot of Arrested Development? 495 00:20:23,049 --> 00:20:25,258 No, it's not possible to give a rundown of the plot. 496 00:20:28,019 --> 00:20:29,297 [MUMBLING] 497 00:20:29,331 --> 00:20:32,748 You could encapsulate it in a book the size of a dictionary. 498 00:20:32,783 --> 00:20:34,440 At its heart, Arrested Development 499 00:20:34,474 --> 00:20:36,787 is a show about family dynamics. 500 00:20:36,821 --> 00:20:39,341 And it's a show about an adult family. 501 00:20:39,376 --> 00:20:43,138 And how damaged they are. 502 00:20:43,172 --> 00:20:45,761 That's not really what it's about though, is it? 503 00:20:45,796 --> 00:20:49,317 Basically, it's about a, uh, a family with a hell of a lot 504 00:20:49,351 --> 00:20:50,801 of baggage. 505 00:20:50,835 --> 00:20:55,254 That has had money, and acts as though they still do. 506 00:20:55,288 --> 00:20:58,912 And yet one of the sons, he's sort of the only one 507 00:20:58,947 --> 00:21:01,121 that sees the reality of their situation. 508 00:21:01,156 --> 00:21:04,297 These are rich, snobby bastards... 509 00:21:04,332 --> 00:21:07,024 But they're so [BLEEP] up. 510 00:21:07,058 --> 00:21:08,715 That family is probably a lot closer to the average 511 00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:11,235 American family than, you know, any of these other 512 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:12,788 crap comedies that are on television. 513 00:21:12,823 --> 00:21:14,376 It's a show about family values. 514 00:21:14,411 --> 00:21:16,930 But in a sick, twisted, dysfunctional way. 515 00:21:16,965 --> 00:21:19,278 -Family first. -Family first. 516 00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:23,178 Here we have the family, that at one point 517 00:21:23,212 --> 00:21:24,800 had everything. 518 00:21:24,835 --> 00:21:27,700 Except ethics and scruples. 519 00:21:27,734 --> 00:21:30,254 It's just about a family that lost their money, 520 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,535 and became desperate. And needed to bond together 521 00:21:35,570 --> 00:21:38,124 to make it through this economic storm. 522 00:21:38,158 --> 00:21:40,368 And we, the audience and the cameras, 523 00:21:40,402 --> 00:21:42,715 follow them as they try to, you know, 524 00:21:42,749 --> 00:21:46,270 navigate the challenges of the less privileged. 525 00:21:47,823 --> 00:21:49,929 That's a very unfunny way to say it. 526 00:22:03,218 --> 00:22:06,186 I think everything starts and ends with the writing. 527 00:22:06,221 --> 00:22:09,914 It was the best writing staff I've ever seen put together. 528 00:22:09,949 --> 00:22:13,193 They worked hard. They really, really worked hard. 529 00:22:13,228 --> 00:22:15,713 It was a constant reinforcing of "Wow, these guys are good." 530 00:22:15,748 --> 00:22:18,406 There's so much going on, I mean, there's so much 531 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,754 bang for your buck, every few seconds there's a joke, 532 00:22:21,788 --> 00:22:22,962 a set-up, a joke, a set-up. 533 00:22:22,996 --> 00:22:24,860 Most of the time on network television, 534 00:22:24,895 --> 00:22:26,690 you write to the lowest common denominator. 535 00:22:26,724 --> 00:22:28,243 You want to please the masses. 536 00:22:28,277 --> 00:22:29,934 Arrested Development never did that. 537 00:22:29,969 --> 00:22:31,522 It didn't care if you got the joke or not. 538 00:22:31,557 --> 00:22:34,525 We did the show, more or less, as Mitch wrote it. 539 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,597 And had a lot of faith in our audience to get the jokes. 540 00:22:37,632 --> 00:22:39,910 There wasn't a lot of room 541 00:22:39,944 --> 00:22:41,808 for just rambling. 542 00:22:41,843 --> 00:22:46,054 It wasn't that laugh out loud, and once you got it, 543 00:22:46,088 --> 00:22:47,400 it was belly laughs. 544 00:22:47,435 --> 00:22:49,885 It was so quick. So quick. 545 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,301 It was almost like an Airplane!movie. 546 00:22:52,336 --> 00:22:54,545 While you're laughing, you're missing three jokes. 547 00:22:54,580 --> 00:22:56,409 We did do more complicated shows, 548 00:22:56,444 --> 00:22:57,928 more complicated stories, 549 00:22:57,962 --> 00:22:59,447 so they would be more re-watchable. 550 00:22:59,481 --> 00:23:00,517 HOWARD: You know, I just 551 00:23:00,551 --> 00:23:04,141 wanted every single thing to be funny. 552 00:23:04,175 --> 00:23:05,901 He is a perfectionist. 553 00:23:05,936 --> 00:23:09,974 He would just give you these, you know, brilliant lines to say 554 00:23:10,009 --> 00:23:12,321 and it was a joy. It was a joy just to be able to say them. 555 00:23:12,356 --> 00:23:14,393 BATEMAN: Truly, every time I wouldget a script, 556 00:23:14,427 --> 00:23:17,154 I would get up early those mornings and read it. 557 00:23:17,188 --> 00:23:18,604 We used to call each other and say "Oh, my God, 558 00:23:18,638 --> 00:23:20,847 "have you read this week's script, it's so funny!" 559 00:23:20,882 --> 00:23:23,781 I've never done that before, and I haven't done it since. 560 00:23:23,816 --> 00:23:27,992 They were dedicated to making the best 561 00:23:28,027 --> 00:23:30,616 possible comedy on the air. 562 00:23:31,651 --> 00:23:33,791 Usually, over the course of like a series, 563 00:23:33,826 --> 00:23:37,243 for five years you'd be lucky to get one script that good. 564 00:23:37,277 --> 00:23:39,487 We were getting it on a weekly basis. 565 00:23:39,521 --> 00:23:41,799 I remember people telling me "That's not normal." 566 00:23:41,834 --> 00:23:44,250 I really wanted every character to have a story. 567 00:23:44,284 --> 00:23:46,804 I wanted the stories to be intertwined, 568 00:23:46,839 --> 00:23:49,945 um, and I don't completely know why. 569 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:51,602 Y'know, it wasn't just like 570 00:23:51,637 --> 00:23:54,053 "What's the king of queens doing this week 571 00:23:54,087 --> 00:23:58,506 "in episode 403?" You know, it's... [STAMMERS] The characters don't 572 00:23:58,540 --> 00:24:01,163 really change in those shows. And this you could see 573 00:24:01,198 --> 00:24:03,683 immediately, the characters were gonna grow, develop. 574 00:24:03,718 --> 00:24:08,170 I just felt like that was the challenge of this 575 00:24:08,205 --> 00:24:10,794 particular series. I don't know what I would have done that 576 00:24:10,828 --> 00:24:12,071 on another show. 577 00:24:15,177 --> 00:24:17,041 It's one of those shows that rewards you 578 00:24:17,076 --> 00:24:18,560 for paying attention. 579 00:24:18,595 --> 00:24:21,425 Who think three years ahead in the arch of their comedy? 580 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:23,669 Well, Mitch does. Very few other writers can. 581 00:24:23,703 --> 00:24:25,464 I loved the kinds of shows 582 00:24:25,498 --> 00:24:28,708 that you could watch and look for detail, 583 00:24:28,743 --> 00:24:30,572 and try to put the pieces together yourself. 584 00:24:30,607 --> 00:24:32,747 I loved being a little bit behind. 585 00:24:32,781 --> 00:24:34,921 There were a few times on screen where there weren't 586 00:24:34,956 --> 00:24:37,234 multiple levels of comedy going on. 587 00:24:37,268 --> 00:24:40,202 You really have to think, and be paying attention 588 00:24:40,686 --> 00:24:42,481 to get it. 589 00:24:42,515 --> 00:24:45,276 You really had to, you know, focus. 590 00:24:45,311 --> 00:24:48,348 Because there's a hidden gem in every episode. 591 00:24:48,383 --> 00:24:51,697 Every time I watch the show, I pick up something new. 592 00:24:51,731 --> 00:24:55,563 There are so many jokes on a joke on a joke on a joke... 593 00:24:55,597 --> 00:24:57,565 ...and they don't care. If you can't keep up 594 00:24:57,599 --> 00:24:58,807 you'll have to watch it again. 595 00:24:58,842 --> 00:25:01,948 And all the pieces fit together. There's not a point where 596 00:25:01,983 --> 00:25:03,847 it just doesn't make sense, or it's out of sync. 597 00:25:03,881 --> 00:25:05,434 They all kind of fall into place. 598 00:25:05,469 --> 00:25:08,230 The running jokes were used in so many different contexts, 599 00:25:08,265 --> 00:25:10,060 that they really didn't have a chance to get old. 600 00:25:10,094 --> 00:25:11,855 Some of them are so far ahead, like, you're like, 601 00:25:11,889 --> 00:25:13,063 "Okay, where is that going?" 602 00:25:13,097 --> 00:25:14,858 And when you get there, it's such, like, a payoff. 603 00:25:14,892 --> 00:25:18,482 To write a sitcom and put in jokes that you're gonna payoff 604 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:20,484 four episodes later... 605 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:23,176 That's really, you gotta really have stones to do that. 606 00:25:23,211 --> 00:25:25,765 Sitcoms traditionally 607 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,079 work in a fairly methodical way. 608 00:25:29,113 --> 00:25:31,564 ANTHONY: Television is typically sort of a less focused 609 00:25:31,599 --> 00:25:34,118 format as far as an audience goes. 610 00:25:34,153 --> 00:25:36,396 You know, you can be a little distracted, 611 00:25:36,431 --> 00:25:38,709 you can be checking to see if your kid's done the homework, 612 00:25:38,744 --> 00:25:41,056 or, you know, you can pay bills. 613 00:25:41,091 --> 00:25:43,196 And for the most part, you could not do that 614 00:25:43,231 --> 00:25:44,473 with Arrested Development. 615 00:25:44,508 --> 00:25:46,786 It really required your full attention. 616 00:25:46,821 --> 00:25:49,168 That is not the average way that people watch television. 617 00:25:55,484 --> 00:25:59,419 It was hell to make because each one's kinda like a movie. 618 00:25:59,454 --> 00:26:03,182 I knew it was completely different, than anything that... 619 00:26:03,216 --> 00:26:05,771 That we'd really seen on American television. 620 00:26:05,805 --> 00:26:08,636 We wanted to feel like The Osbournes, like 621 00:26:08,670 --> 00:26:12,294 a reality show, a camera guy, and a sound guy 622 00:26:12,329 --> 00:26:13,917 walking around following people. 623 00:26:13,951 --> 00:26:15,643 We didn't want it to feel very produced. 624 00:26:15,677 --> 00:26:18,093 Basically, it was a handheld show. 625 00:26:18,128 --> 00:26:21,269 Serve low production value, simple cameras... 626 00:26:21,303 --> 00:26:23,167 We were shooting fast and furious, 627 00:26:23,202 --> 00:26:25,825 especially at first. Uh, no lighting to speak of. 628 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:27,620 We were just shooting off the hip. 629 00:26:27,655 --> 00:26:29,691 Mitch didn't like to limit the show by having to shoot 630 00:26:29,726 --> 00:26:31,313 all of it in the house... 631 00:26:31,348 --> 00:26:33,661 So every episode we were out in a car, driving around... 632 00:26:33,695 --> 00:26:35,455 But it drew you in too. 633 00:26:35,490 --> 00:26:37,216 It's like you were actually following these guys. 634 00:26:37,250 --> 00:26:39,425 BATEMAN: There was a style to shooting it 635 00:26:39,459 --> 00:26:42,014 that was supposed to be very real. 636 00:26:42,048 --> 00:26:44,672 In fact, I think that was sort of 637 00:26:44,706 --> 00:26:47,364 the motto in the first year you'd come to shoot. 638 00:26:47,398 --> 00:26:49,504 No, no, no horse [BLEEP]. 639 00:26:49,538 --> 00:26:51,195 We even put on the breakdown 640 00:26:51,230 --> 00:26:53,784 that goes out to actor's agents when actors are auditioning, 641 00:26:53,819 --> 00:26:55,717 "This is how we're gonna make it, so you better be 642 00:26:55,752 --> 00:26:58,962 "comfortable with it. You're not gonna have a giant trailer, 643 00:26:58,996 --> 00:27:00,895 "we'll try to have decent hair and makeup 644 00:27:00,929 --> 00:27:02,172 "so you don't look like [BLEEP]. 645 00:27:02,206 --> 00:27:03,898 "But other than that, you gotta be in tune 646 00:27:03,932 --> 00:27:07,039 "with the kind of, very loose filmmaking style." 647 00:27:07,073 --> 00:27:09,179 They would say "Do a chicken dance." 648 00:27:09,213 --> 00:27:12,700 And you would have to do your chicken dance. 649 00:27:12,734 --> 00:27:14,253 You know, [CLUCKS] I mean... 650 00:27:14,287 --> 00:27:16,531 You know, and everybody... I think Will's chicken dance 651 00:27:16,565 --> 00:27:17,808 was the best. 652 00:27:17,843 --> 00:27:20,155 I was always encouraging everybody to shoot with two cameras. 653 00:27:20,190 --> 00:27:21,881 We'd come up with all these rules for the cameras, 654 00:27:21,916 --> 00:27:24,643 and how the cameras were to act, and 655 00:27:24,677 --> 00:27:26,403 have their own personality. 656 00:27:26,437 --> 00:27:29,648 ANTHONY: And so we wanted to kind of capitalize on that, 657 00:27:29,682 --> 00:27:32,202 and sort of play to the idea that we were sort of 658 00:27:32,236 --> 00:27:35,619 flies on the wall, watching this family's travails unfold. 659 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:40,072 You by yourself a lot of time to experiment. 660 00:27:40,106 --> 00:27:43,489 Actors could improvise, comedy writers could rewrite. 661 00:27:43,523 --> 00:27:45,836 We'd send operators onto the set without seeing 662 00:27:45,871 --> 00:27:50,565 a rehearsal and they'd end up banging into each other 663 00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:52,809 but they would get the most amazing stuff. 664 00:27:52,843 --> 00:27:54,638 We were able to move very quickly in keeping with 665 00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:57,261 the whole psuedo-documentary style. 666 00:27:57,296 --> 00:27:59,885 I remember Joe Russo turning to me one time and saying 667 00:27:59,919 --> 00:28:00,955 "Jimmy, can you believe 668 00:28:00,989 --> 00:28:02,784 "they're letting us do this [BLEEP]?" 669 00:28:02,819 --> 00:28:04,821 I knew that we were following the beat of our own drummer, 670 00:28:04,855 --> 00:28:08,721 and that it was gonna feel very different than any other show. 671 00:28:08,756 --> 00:28:11,620 And secretly I was always wishing I could direct 672 00:28:11,655 --> 00:28:14,554 an episode... But I never had a chance to. 673 00:28:14,589 --> 00:28:17,040 Nowadays in television it's not surprising, because a lot of 674 00:28:17,074 --> 00:28:19,801 shows look like this now, but at the time, 675 00:28:19,836 --> 00:28:23,115 for a scripted show, it was unconventional 676 00:28:23,149 --> 00:28:25,842 to look as bad as Arrested Developmentlooked. 677 00:28:28,430 --> 00:28:29,604 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 678 00:28:29,638 --> 00:28:32,055 WOMAN: Franklin. Do you remember one of his sayings? 679 00:28:33,297 --> 00:28:34,816 It ain't easy being white. 680 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:39,372 BOTH: ♪ It ain't easy being white! ♪ 681 00:28:39,407 --> 00:28:43,549 Franklin is one of the greatest characters on the show. 682 00:28:43,583 --> 00:28:46,759 ♪ It ain't easy being brown ♪ 683 00:28:46,794 --> 00:28:48,934 This is Gob's big idea 684 00:28:48,968 --> 00:28:50,936 for racial harmony. 685 00:28:50,970 --> 00:28:53,455 ♪ All the pressure to be bright ♪ 686 00:28:53,490 --> 00:28:55,595 MAN: It's this puppet that sings 687 00:28:55,630 --> 00:28:57,632 this highly offensive song. 688 00:28:57,666 --> 00:29:00,842 ♪ I got children all over town! ♪ 689 00:29:00,877 --> 00:29:04,846 That was used in an act that, that Whitey wasn't quite 690 00:29:04,881 --> 00:29:06,434 ready for and... 691 00:29:06,468 --> 00:29:08,401 My name is Justin Grant Wade, 692 00:29:08,436 --> 00:29:10,334 and I played Steve Holt. 693 00:29:10,369 --> 00:29:11,611 -Steve Holt! -Steve Holt! 694 00:29:11,646 --> 00:29:12,854 BOTH: Steve Holt! 695 00:29:12,889 --> 00:29:16,789 He's just a, uh, fun guy. Uh, definitely likes himself. 696 00:29:16,824 --> 00:29:20,862 My name is Mae Whitman. I played Anne Paul Veal. 697 00:29:20,897 --> 00:29:23,037 Nobody could figure out why George Michael liked her. 698 00:29:23,071 --> 00:29:24,107 You know "her?" 699 00:29:24,141 --> 00:29:26,661 WHITMAN: She's sort of, plain. 700 00:29:26,695 --> 00:29:29,457 And let me just add that I was wearing a fat suit on the show. 701 00:29:29,491 --> 00:29:30,803 People always come up to me and they're like, 702 00:29:30,838 --> 00:29:33,150 "God, you look great! Jeez, you've lost a bunch of weight." 703 00:29:33,185 --> 00:29:35,152 You know, we had just fabulous guest stars 704 00:29:35,187 --> 00:29:36,705 on the show. 705 00:29:36,740 --> 00:29:38,846 My name is Justin Lee, and the character I played 706 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,537 is, uh, Annyong Bluth. 707 00:29:40,571 --> 00:29:43,160 Lucille adopts a son from Korea. [GIGGLES] 708 00:29:43,195 --> 00:29:46,232 "Annyong"in Korean means "Hello." 709 00:29:46,267 --> 00:29:49,511 And the only thing that I ever say for the next few episodes 710 00:29:49,546 --> 00:29:50,719 is"Annyong." 711 00:29:50,754 --> 00:29:52,169 They keep saying annyongto him and so he just keeps 712 00:29:52,204 --> 00:29:53,412 saying it back to them... 713 00:29:53,446 --> 00:29:55,310 Then, that... That became my name, Annyong. 714 00:29:55,345 --> 00:29:56,864 My wife and I use it all the time. 715 00:29:56,898 --> 00:29:58,382 We just go [MOCK VOICE] Annyong! 716 00:29:58,417 --> 00:29:59,901 -Annyong! -Annyong. 717 00:29:59,936 --> 00:30:01,523 -Annyong. -Annyong? 718 00:30:01,558 --> 00:30:02,801 Annyong! 719 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:05,838 My name is David Reynolds, I got to play the, uh, 720 00:30:05,873 --> 00:30:07,875 character of White Power Bill. 721 00:30:07,909 --> 00:30:10,636 I would like to say that he's like probably a retarded racist 722 00:30:10,670 --> 00:30:13,466 because like the only person he attacks in the film 723 00:30:13,501 --> 00:30:14,882 are like, white people. 724 00:30:14,916 --> 00:30:16,642 [GRUMBLING] White Power! 725 00:30:17,574 --> 00:30:20,059 [CREW MEMBER CHUCKLES] 726 00:30:20,094 --> 00:30:22,544 The first big get was Liza Minnelli. 727 00:30:22,579 --> 00:30:25,582 I was able to hear that somebody was interested in 728 00:30:25,616 --> 00:30:28,067 doing the show and then write it right for them. 729 00:30:28,102 --> 00:30:30,000 -Julia Louis-Dreyfus -Zach Braff. 730 00:30:30,035 --> 00:30:31,139 Amy Poehler. 731 00:30:31,174 --> 00:30:32,382 We all knew it was pretty special when they got some 732 00:30:32,416 --> 00:30:33,728 heavy hitters. 733 00:30:33,762 --> 00:30:35,834 -Charlize Theron. -Ben Stiller. 734 00:30:35,868 --> 00:30:37,766 -Carl Weathers. -Carl Weathers! 735 00:30:37,801 --> 00:30:39,941 When you have people of that caliber, 736 00:30:39,976 --> 00:30:44,049 it just, as a writer, it just forces you to do better. 737 00:30:44,083 --> 00:30:45,705 We gotta do better, we gotta do better. 738 00:30:45,740 --> 00:30:47,535 And then there were people we were never able to get in 739 00:30:47,569 --> 00:30:48,950 that said they'd be willing to do it. 740 00:30:48,985 --> 00:30:50,538 Ricky Gervais said he'd be willing to do it. 741 00:30:50,572 --> 00:30:52,885 Sacha Baron Cohen I desperately wanted. 742 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,749 We also heard at one point that Christopher Walken 743 00:30:54,783 --> 00:30:56,233 was willing to be in the show. 744 00:30:58,684 --> 00:31:01,721 I'm Ed Begley and I played Stan Sitwell. 745 00:31:01,756 --> 00:31:03,171 He has physical characteristics that are 746 00:31:03,206 --> 00:31:04,379 quite unusual. 747 00:31:04,414 --> 00:31:06,623 Stan Sitwell couldn't grow his own hair because 748 00:31:06,657 --> 00:31:08,142 -he had, what? -BOTH: Alopecia? 749 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,769 So he doesn't want to go au naturel, 750 00:31:14,803 --> 00:31:16,288 doesn't want to go for the bald look. 751 00:31:16,322 --> 00:31:18,911 He's got different eyebrows that he moves around. 752 00:31:18,946 --> 00:31:21,431 Well, he doesn't intend to move them around, but they do. 753 00:31:21,465 --> 00:31:24,675 It is a disturbing character that he ended up creating. 754 00:31:24,710 --> 00:31:26,401 My name is Andy Richter... 755 00:31:26,436 --> 00:31:28,956 I remember we had Andy play himself... 756 00:31:28,990 --> 00:31:32,752 But the guy on set started to really push me and be like, 757 00:31:32,787 --> 00:31:36,308 no, no, no. I want you to do it as if you're like, you know... 758 00:31:36,342 --> 00:31:38,620 You're a big fat guy that just wants to eat. 759 00:31:38,655 --> 00:31:41,658 And I said "Oh, you mean the old fatty loves to eat joke? 760 00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:43,798 "You want me to be a big fat [BLEEP] loser 761 00:31:43,832 --> 00:31:46,283 "who just wants to [BLEEP] fill his fat [BLEEP] face?" 762 00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:49,390 And the guy went "Yeah, that's what I want." 763 00:31:49,424 --> 00:31:51,910 Andy had just done a show for Fox called Quintuplets. 764 00:31:51,944 --> 00:31:53,014 Google it. 765 00:31:53,049 --> 00:31:54,809 And I don't know if it was his idea, but a writer 766 00:31:54,843 --> 00:31:56,293 on the show, Jim Vallely... 767 00:31:56,328 --> 00:31:58,951 There was something about me being on the show 768 00:31:58,986 --> 00:32:01,264 that he found endlessly amusing. 769 00:32:01,298 --> 00:32:02,679 I called up Mitch Hurwitz, 770 00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:04,163 and he goes "Well, we already had him on the show, 771 00:32:04,198 --> 00:32:05,785 "as Andy Richter." I go, "But what if the teacher's 772 00:32:05,820 --> 00:32:08,340 "Andy Richter's twin brother?" 773 00:32:08,374 --> 00:32:10,894 I do remember one of them's name's was Chareth. 774 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:13,966 And then Mitch goes, "What if he's one of 775 00:32:14,001 --> 00:32:16,037 "Andy Richter's quintuplet brothers?" 776 00:32:16,072 --> 00:32:18,867 But Quintupletsfailed too, I dunno maybe it's just me. 777 00:32:18,902 --> 00:32:21,146 Maybe I'm, you know, showbiz cancer. 778 00:32:21,870 --> 00:32:23,217 I like Barry Zuckerkorn. 779 00:32:23,251 --> 00:32:25,840 Barry Zuckerkorn the complete idiot attorney. 780 00:32:25,874 --> 00:32:27,048 He's very good. 781 00:32:27,083 --> 00:32:29,637 I just want to say, I am in a shirt and tie, 782 00:32:29,671 --> 00:32:33,123 because Barry was very well-dressed. 783 00:32:33,158 --> 00:32:36,609 When I heard that Henry was going to be on the show, 784 00:32:36,644 --> 00:32:38,542 I was in heaven. 785 00:32:38,577 --> 00:32:42,167 WINKLER: The best part of playing Barry was his ties. 786 00:32:42,201 --> 00:32:44,065 I got to keep some of them. 787 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:46,067 This is not it... But... 788 00:32:46,102 --> 00:32:48,897 He's clearly the worst lawyer ever. 789 00:32:48,932 --> 00:32:50,796 He's so gross and creepy. 790 00:32:50,830 --> 00:32:53,488 He has no idea how the judicial system works. 791 00:32:53,523 --> 00:32:56,077 His character is so unlike what he's known for. 792 00:32:56,112 --> 00:32:58,597 And for him to have been, at one point, 793 00:32:58,631 --> 00:33:01,496 the coolest guy in the world as The Fonz... 794 00:33:01,531 --> 00:33:05,155 The biggest problem he's got is he has no idea 795 00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:07,192 what his sexuality is. 796 00:33:07,226 --> 00:33:08,607 Probably next to the Fonz, 797 00:33:08,641 --> 00:33:10,505 I think, I bet it's his favorite character. 798 00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:14,199 He believes he might have a vagina, but he's actually 799 00:33:14,233 --> 00:33:16,615 never said that to anybody. 800 00:33:16,649 --> 00:33:19,998 The weirder his guy got, the happier Henry was. 801 00:33:20,032 --> 00:33:22,448 Mitch and the writers paid homage to 802 00:33:22,483 --> 00:33:24,519 Happy Days, or the Fonz, twice. 803 00:33:24,554 --> 00:33:26,038 'Cause, you know, the episode where he's in the bathroom, 804 00:33:26,073 --> 00:33:27,384 and they're having a conversation in the bathroom, 805 00:33:27,419 --> 00:33:29,076 and he turns to the mirror and he's like, 806 00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:32,458 "Hey." And I looked at my hair, and went, 807 00:33:32,493 --> 00:33:33,735 "Pfft, I don't have to comb it." 808 00:33:33,770 --> 00:33:37,256 You're like [BLEEP] that is so brilliant! 809 00:33:37,291 --> 00:33:40,570 Then the second is I am the only actor 810 00:33:40,604 --> 00:33:43,090 in the world 811 00:33:43,124 --> 00:33:45,299 who has jumped the shark twice. 812 00:33:49,130 --> 00:33:51,305 The history of jump the shark is, there was a scene 813 00:33:51,339 --> 00:33:54,446 in Happy Days where Fonzie, played by Henry Winkler, 814 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,242 was in a leather jacket 815 00:33:57,276 --> 00:34:00,383 on water skis, going to jump over a shark, 816 00:34:00,417 --> 00:34:02,143 and Ron Howard, Richard Cunningham 817 00:34:02,178 --> 00:34:03,627 was driving the boat. 818 00:34:03,662 --> 00:34:06,251 And that's the quintessential point where it's like, "Come on!" 819 00:34:06,285 --> 00:34:07,907 'Cause that's what jump the shark is. 820 00:34:07,942 --> 00:34:10,945 Jump the shark is that the producers have sold out. 821 00:34:10,979 --> 00:34:13,223 And it gave birth, really, to the phrase. And so 822 00:34:13,258 --> 00:34:14,569 you take that metaphor, 823 00:34:14,604 --> 00:34:16,847 and you apply it to any television show... 824 00:34:16,882 --> 00:34:19,747 AMODEO: We did a cross promotional episode with Burger King 825 00:34:19,781 --> 00:34:22,474 which is just sort of absurd for a show like 826 00:34:22,508 --> 00:34:23,613 Arrested Development. 827 00:34:23,647 --> 00:34:25,477 When you talk about Arrested Development, 828 00:34:25,511 --> 00:34:28,066 with respect to jumping the shark, 829 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:29,446 I could talk for hours. 830 00:34:29,481 --> 00:34:32,346 Buster gets his hand bitten off by a seal. 831 00:34:32,380 --> 00:34:35,659 We made it a seal 'cause that rhymed with Lucille's name. 832 00:34:35,694 --> 00:34:39,249 They eventually find, um, a shark who they think 833 00:34:39,284 --> 00:34:40,354 ate the seal... 834 00:34:40,388 --> 00:34:42,252 Okay, now we gotta get Henry Winkler down there... 835 00:34:42,873 --> 00:34:45,669 And I jumped over it. 836 00:34:45,704 --> 00:34:47,361 If you didn't know that that's where the term 837 00:34:47,395 --> 00:34:49,121 came from, it would totally be lost on you. 838 00:34:49,156 --> 00:34:50,709 And I was like... "Oh, my God, 839 00:34:50,743 --> 00:34:52,952 "did they really just do that? Oh... Wow." 840 00:34:52,987 --> 00:34:54,851 Without having to say a word, just the subtle look 841 00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:56,508 at the shark... jump over it. 842 00:34:56,542 --> 00:34:58,130 But the joke's not done yet, 843 00:34:58,165 --> 00:35:02,065 because there's no other meaning of jump the shark. 844 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:05,068 It should be in an episode where we jump the shark. 845 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,105 So we actually shot a scene in a Burger King. 846 00:35:07,139 --> 00:35:09,003 We all got commitment to Burger King. 847 00:35:09,037 --> 00:35:11,385 'Cause they put our name on their little table tents. 848 00:35:11,419 --> 00:35:14,802 And then the punctuation point on it was Henry's line, 849 00:35:14,836 --> 00:35:17,736 "Going off to Burger King and jumping the shark." 850 00:35:17,770 --> 00:35:18,909 I don't think Arrested Development 851 00:35:18,944 --> 00:35:20,118 ever jumped the shark. I don't think 852 00:35:20,152 --> 00:35:22,085 it was on long enough. I think they got out, 853 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,776 whether they wanted to or not, they got out at 854 00:35:23,811 --> 00:35:25,019 the right time. 855 00:35:25,053 --> 00:35:26,710 Sometimes, like that whole thing came 856 00:35:26,745 --> 00:35:28,402 together for that joke. 857 00:35:31,336 --> 00:35:34,235 I knew that Winkler was the attorney, 858 00:35:34,270 --> 00:35:36,030 and you know it was one of those things I just 859 00:35:36,064 --> 00:35:38,860 didn't quite do the math. 860 00:35:40,448 --> 00:35:45,177 I am Scott Baio and I pay... [CHUCKLES] 861 00:35:45,212 --> 00:35:47,938 I am Scott Baio and I play Bob Loblaw. 862 00:35:47,973 --> 00:35:50,320 It was a good choice after having Barry Zuckerkorn. 863 00:35:50,355 --> 00:35:54,704 I was sort of the, um, younger Fonzie? 864 00:35:54,738 --> 00:35:56,637 You know, in retrospect it seemed natural that I would 865 00:35:56,671 --> 00:35:57,983 just take his place. 866 00:35:58,017 --> 00:36:01,538 I actually liked a guest character solely for his name. 867 00:36:01,573 --> 00:36:03,161 And that of course would be Scott Baio. 868 00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:07,026 Well, uh, first of all, 869 00:36:07,061 --> 00:36:09,995 when they sent me the script, and... 870 00:36:10,029 --> 00:36:13,101 I'm from New York, and my accent 871 00:36:13,136 --> 00:36:14,862 got in the way of the names. 872 00:36:14,896 --> 00:36:17,451 So I looked at it and said Bob Loblaw. And... 873 00:36:17,485 --> 00:36:19,280 I was doing the scene with Bateman, 874 00:36:19,315 --> 00:36:21,834 and he said, "Here's our attorney Bob Loblaw." 875 00:36:21,869 --> 00:36:24,285 And I went, "That's the name?" 876 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,563 I was so completely thrown out of the scene by 877 00:36:26,598 --> 00:36:27,909 him saying that. 878 00:36:27,944 --> 00:36:30,636 Why would you name a character Bob Loblaw? 879 00:36:30,671 --> 00:36:33,087 Simply so you could say, "Blah, blah, blah." 880 00:36:33,121 --> 00:36:35,641 -Bob Loblaw. -Bob Loblaw. 881 00:36:35,676 --> 00:36:38,230 So I think in the end they agreed to 882 00:36:38,265 --> 00:36:40,681 Bob Loblaw. 883 00:36:40,715 --> 00:36:43,270 No. Bob Loblaw. 884 00:36:43,304 --> 00:36:44,892 Yeah. 885 00:36:44,926 --> 00:36:46,687 It just became a, just a big joke. 886 00:36:46,721 --> 00:36:48,206 And without him there would be no 887 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,863 -Bob Loblaw's Law Blog. -Bob Loblaw's Law Blog. 888 00:36:50,898 --> 00:36:52,589 Bob Loblaw's Law Blog. 889 00:36:52,624 --> 00:36:55,247 But I knew going in that it would be, uh, 890 00:36:56,352 --> 00:37:00,114 just nuts. And it was. 891 00:37:03,324 --> 00:37:05,292 It almost seems very improv'd. 892 00:37:05,326 --> 00:37:08,571 I don't know how much improv they did on the actual show... 893 00:37:08,605 --> 00:37:11,229 We heard that a lot, uh. Pretty consistently. 894 00:37:11,263 --> 00:37:14,404 And there's no better testament to the writers, 895 00:37:14,439 --> 00:37:17,580 uh, than... The fact that people think that. 896 00:37:17,614 --> 00:37:19,961 They didn't need to improvise. They didn't want to improvise. 897 00:37:19,996 --> 00:37:21,204 The writing was so good. 898 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,171 It was supposed to sound like we were improvising. 899 00:37:23,206 --> 00:37:26,174 The show looks spontaneous. 900 00:37:27,728 --> 00:37:30,903 But it's so unbelievably not spontaneous. 901 00:37:30,938 --> 00:37:32,836 The words were very good. 902 00:37:32,871 --> 00:37:35,183 You don't want to fix something that isn't broken. 903 00:37:35,218 --> 00:37:38,014 It was such a, uh, a dense show as well, 904 00:37:38,048 --> 00:37:41,673 in terms of just pure volume of script-age. 905 00:37:41,707 --> 00:37:43,537 That you knew that if you improvised too much 906 00:37:43,571 --> 00:37:45,021 most of it wouldn't get in the show anyway. 907 00:37:45,055 --> 00:37:48,231 Although, we weren't discouraged. 908 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,820 Once we would get a scene done, as written, 909 00:37:50,854 --> 00:37:53,650 sometimes we would say different stuff. 910 00:37:53,685 --> 00:37:54,996 Different jokes. 911 00:37:55,031 --> 00:37:57,654 The comedy was very specific. 912 00:37:57,689 --> 00:38:00,830 The dialogue had to be delivered pretty much on book. 913 00:38:00,864 --> 00:38:03,211 A lot of improv took place on the set. 914 00:38:03,246 --> 00:38:06,076 HALE: We would improv some stuff and Mitch would 915 00:38:06,111 --> 00:38:08,424 be like "What do you think?" And just, it wasn't as funny 916 00:38:08,458 --> 00:38:09,735 as what's in the script. 917 00:38:09,770 --> 00:38:12,842 The cameras were connected to Mitch's office. 918 00:38:12,876 --> 00:38:15,879 And if he didn't hear what he wanted to hear, 919 00:38:15,914 --> 00:38:19,504 if I thought I was being funny [CHUCKLES] off the script, 920 00:38:19,538 --> 00:38:21,091 he would all of a sudden appear in front of me, 921 00:38:21,126 --> 00:38:22,472 like a genie. 922 00:38:22,507 --> 00:38:26,062 When all of production and all the guys are not sitting around 923 00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:27,822 and hanging out outside in their trucks, 924 00:38:27,857 --> 00:38:29,376 and they're all on stage, 925 00:38:29,410 --> 00:38:30,756 watching the action, 926 00:38:30,791 --> 00:38:32,586 You know that there was something going on. 927 00:38:32,620 --> 00:38:35,347 -But the only time that we would improv... -[SIRENS WAILING] 928 00:38:35,382 --> 00:38:38,488 would be... [BLEEP] ambulance, right? 929 00:38:38,523 --> 00:38:40,421 [BLEEP] people dying. 930 00:38:40,456 --> 00:38:41,905 When you've got guys like David Cross, 931 00:38:41,940 --> 00:38:45,012 and Will Arnett and all these guys going for it, 932 00:38:45,046 --> 00:38:46,600 you're gonna get hilarious stuff. 933 00:38:46,634 --> 00:38:48,464 It's something I can't even help, it's almost 934 00:38:48,498 --> 00:38:51,087 like a form of Tourette's, where you just can't shut up. 935 00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:52,330 Let well enough be... 936 00:38:52,364 --> 00:38:54,297 I wonder what kind of show you could put together 937 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,437 with all the cut footage. 938 00:38:57,058 --> 00:38:58,922 Find that. 939 00:38:58,957 --> 00:39:01,822 Find that footage. You know how you do that? 940 00:39:02,547 --> 00:39:04,065 Follow the money. 941 00:39:05,481 --> 00:39:06,861 Follow the money. 942 00:39:11,556 --> 00:39:13,351 [CHUCKLES] One of my favorite moments was 943 00:39:13,385 --> 00:39:16,526 Michael Cera walking the Red Carpet 944 00:39:16,561 --> 00:39:19,633 and all you can hear is "Michael, Cera, Michael Cera. 945 00:39:19,667 --> 00:39:22,049 "Michael, Cera." And he's like "What the [BLEEP]?" 946 00:39:22,083 --> 00:39:24,741 And then he realizes that he's right in between 947 00:39:24,776 --> 00:39:27,088 Michael Douglas and Sarah Jessica Parker. 948 00:39:27,123 --> 00:39:28,883 And so [LAUGHING] the photographers are 949 00:39:28,918 --> 00:39:30,264 yelling "Michael, Sarah!" 950 00:39:30,298 --> 00:39:33,060 -CREWMAN: Is that for real? -Yeah, that's a true story. 951 00:39:33,094 --> 00:39:34,579 No, I lied. 952 00:39:39,653 --> 00:39:43,242 They won the Best Comedy first year, out of the box. 953 00:39:43,277 --> 00:39:44,658 And I was elated, 'cause I thought, you know, 954 00:39:44,692 --> 00:39:45,797 -That's it! -And it was 955 00:39:45,831 --> 00:39:47,074 really like, out of nowhere. 956 00:39:47,108 --> 00:39:49,283 They were clearly all surprised. 957 00:39:49,317 --> 00:39:51,043 Wasn't that incredible? 958 00:39:51,078 --> 00:39:52,942 That Emmy? 959 00:39:52,976 --> 00:39:55,669 When the show won the Emmys... 960 00:39:55,703 --> 00:39:59,327 ...it was gratifying and sort of, uh, encouraging and affirming. 961 00:39:59,362 --> 00:40:00,605 That was an awesome night. 962 00:40:00,639 --> 00:40:01,985 That was an awesome night. 963 00:40:02,020 --> 00:40:03,435 It was like the craziest sensation. 964 00:40:03,470 --> 00:40:04,781 The craziest victory. 965 00:40:04,816 --> 00:40:07,508 I don't think we'll ever have an experience like that night. 966 00:40:07,543 --> 00:40:11,098 It was such an incredible feeling. 967 00:40:11,132 --> 00:40:13,307 And hey, I've won tons of Emmys 968 00:40:13,341 --> 00:40:16,275 before, but that Emmy. No, I haven't... 969 00:40:16,310 --> 00:40:19,209 I remember Ellen DeGeneres saying it, and the words 970 00:40:19,244 --> 00:40:21,798 came out, and I remember jumping up! 971 00:40:21,833 --> 00:40:23,455 It was a great moment for Mitch. 972 00:40:23,490 --> 00:40:25,250 It was a great moment for the writing staff. 973 00:40:25,284 --> 00:40:26,354 It was a great validation. 974 00:40:26,389 --> 00:40:28,667 Mitch Hurwitz and those speeches at the Emmys... 975 00:40:28,702 --> 00:40:31,877 We found out that Hurwitz is actually one of the best 976 00:40:31,912 --> 00:40:34,708 Emmy speech givers in Emmy history. 977 00:40:34,742 --> 00:40:36,468 It was probably the best acceptance speech 978 00:40:36,503 --> 00:40:37,918 I've ever heard. 979 00:40:37,952 --> 00:40:39,264 HOWARD: You know, kind of as funny as anything you'd ever see 980 00:40:39,298 --> 00:40:40,714 on the show. 981 00:40:40,748 --> 00:40:42,819 He was like "All right, great! Now watch it!" 982 00:40:42,854 --> 00:40:44,234 He was kind of brilliant, wasn't he? 983 00:40:48,135 --> 00:40:49,964 I'll get myself in trouble here. 984 00:40:50,896 --> 00:40:52,242 Hmm... 985 00:40:52,277 --> 00:40:54,003 The night we won the Emmy, 986 00:40:54,037 --> 00:40:57,282 I saw Gail Berman, and she was then the president of Fox Entertainment, 987 00:40:57,316 --> 00:41:01,010 and she showed me an email that, on her BlackBerry, 988 00:41:01,044 --> 00:41:02,667 that she had gotten from Peter Chernin, her boss. 989 00:41:02,701 --> 00:41:04,531 She had texted him "Arrested Development 990 00:41:04,565 --> 00:41:06,843 "just won." And what he wrote back was "Oh, [BLEEP]." 991 00:41:06,878 --> 00:41:10,329 As sort of the way that the awards and nominations 992 00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:13,229 kind of went out in the schedule, it would often 993 00:41:13,263 --> 00:41:17,198 coincide with the schedule of having to give producers 994 00:41:17,233 --> 00:41:18,890 notice of whether they need to write more scripts. 995 00:41:18,924 --> 00:41:20,512 And she said "Can you believe it?" 996 00:41:20,547 --> 00:41:23,377 I said, "Gail, that's not... Holy [BLEEP]!" 997 00:41:23,411 --> 00:41:24,689 "Oh, sure it is!" "No, he's... He's 998 00:41:24,723 --> 00:41:27,208 "blown away." said no, that's "Oh, [BLEEP]." 999 00:41:31,868 --> 00:41:33,698 WOMAN: Are you more apt to watch a comedy 1000 00:41:33,732 --> 00:41:35,769 if it won an Emmy for a Best Comedy? 1001 00:41:35,803 --> 00:41:37,115 No, I don't think so. 1002 00:41:37,149 --> 00:41:40,049 I don't really care about like, awards and stuff like that. 1003 00:41:40,083 --> 00:41:42,361 It's not like, oh, well, that won the Emmy so 1004 00:41:42,396 --> 00:41:43,984 I need to watch it. 1005 00:41:44,018 --> 00:41:46,089 Those Emmys were like, "Oh, are we finally 1006 00:41:46,124 --> 00:41:48,747 "transitioning into some sort of popular acceptance?" 1007 00:41:48,782 --> 00:41:51,405 And unfortunately, it never materialized after that point. 1008 00:41:51,439 --> 00:41:54,063 All of America was supposed to say "Man, that show won 1009 00:41:54,097 --> 00:41:55,651 "an Emmy, I've got to check it out." 1010 00:41:55,685 --> 00:41:56,962 [FART NOISE] 1011 00:41:57,963 --> 00:42:00,172 I think it gave us more credibility. 1012 00:42:00,207 --> 00:42:01,933 And it kept it on. 1013 00:42:01,967 --> 00:42:04,729 But I don't really know if it actually, honestly, 1014 00:42:04,763 --> 00:42:06,420 improved the ratings. [LAUGHING] 1015 00:42:06,454 --> 00:42:09,250 We sort of thought, "What show is that... That won?" 1016 00:42:09,285 --> 00:42:12,564 And that we're not really gonna spike audience-wise from it. 1017 00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:14,393 It turned out to be true. 1018 00:42:14,428 --> 00:42:16,810 I think that each time it got nominated, 1019 00:42:16,844 --> 00:42:20,952 and won, it was just like a little sphincter pinch for everybody 1020 00:42:20,986 --> 00:42:22,919 at Fox. Like "Mmm, damn it." 1021 00:42:22,954 --> 00:42:25,094 "There's another eight shows we have to do." 1022 00:42:25,128 --> 00:42:27,199 It's really what kept us on the air. 1023 00:42:27,234 --> 00:42:29,995 Jim actually told me a funny story about it, 1024 00:42:30,030 --> 00:42:33,551 that after the Emmys, that next show 1025 00:42:33,585 --> 00:42:37,002 there was an anticipation of a ratings bump. 1026 00:42:37,037 --> 00:42:41,282 So that gave us, uh, a little injection of hope and optimism. 1027 00:42:41,317 --> 00:42:43,940 Uh, before that came crashing down, of course. 1028 00:42:45,355 --> 00:42:47,806 The day after, we pulled up to Fox... 1029 00:42:47,841 --> 00:42:49,497 CROSS: You know, when you drive onto the Fox lot, 1030 00:42:49,532 --> 00:42:52,190 there's massive billboards. They have those huge 1031 00:42:52,224 --> 00:42:54,364 crazy big, big billboards. And there was like... 1032 00:42:54,399 --> 00:42:57,540 ...a huge billboard in the front for like Jamie Kennedy's 1033 00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,473 new movie, and then we drive around the corner, 1034 00:42:59,507 --> 00:43:01,579 and there was a tiny little banner on the inside 1035 00:43:01,613 --> 00:43:02,787 of the studio. 1036 00:43:02,821 --> 00:43:04,478 The kind of thing you get for like, "We're raising money 1037 00:43:04,512 --> 00:43:07,101 "for the firehouse, come to our barbecue chicken night." 1038 00:43:07,136 --> 00:43:10,277 Congratulations Arrested, for five Emmys. 1039 00:43:10,311 --> 00:43:12,555 That banner was up for a few days, and then 1040 00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:14,937 the morning after 1041 00:43:14,971 --> 00:43:19,424 that much anticipated airing of the next show, 1042 00:43:19,458 --> 00:43:23,186 that banner changed to something like really depressing. 1043 00:43:23,221 --> 00:43:25,672 Like that, you know, show where they blew up cars 1044 00:43:25,706 --> 00:43:27,363 and showed a lot of [BLEEP]. 1045 00:43:27,397 --> 00:43:28,536 [CHUCKLES] It was like that thing. 1046 00:43:28,571 --> 00:43:31,988 Like, "Coming up, exploding [BLEEP]! 1047 00:43:32,023 --> 00:43:33,541 Check it out this Fall. 1048 00:43:33,576 --> 00:43:34,991 On Fox. 1049 00:43:42,136 --> 00:43:44,656 Well, and that show did seem to be written they day before 1050 00:43:44,691 --> 00:43:45,864 it was shot. 1051 00:43:45,899 --> 00:43:47,728 Our scripts were notoriously late. 1052 00:43:47,763 --> 00:43:49,592 Yeah, the script definitely did come in late. 1053 00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:52,526 We used to get the scripts on Wednesday, or sometimes 1054 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,183 even Thursday morning. 1055 00:43:54,217 --> 00:43:58,601 Mitch is notorious for not having scripts. 1056 00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:01,017 He can be a little infuriating, 'cause he'll be re-writing 1057 00:44:01,052 --> 00:44:02,536 to the last second. 1058 00:44:02,570 --> 00:44:05,366 I think Mitch was a bit of the kid who 1059 00:44:05,401 --> 00:44:07,575 would write his report the night before it was due. 1060 00:44:07,610 --> 00:44:11,096 I really did feel like, I wanted more time with it. 1061 00:44:11,131 --> 00:44:14,065 On Arrested,it reached the point of absurdity. 1062 00:44:14,099 --> 00:44:17,171 It was probably not terribly disciplined in terms of 1063 00:44:17,206 --> 00:44:18,725 when you got the scripts. 1064 00:44:18,759 --> 00:44:21,589 And the scripts came in late because I was putting my 1065 00:44:21,624 --> 00:44:24,385 creative expression ahead of 1066 00:44:24,420 --> 00:44:26,008 the studio's creative expression. 1067 00:44:26,042 --> 00:44:27,457 I mean, he always came through, and he came through 1068 00:44:27,492 --> 00:44:31,047 with A-level material obviously, but it was... It was incredible... 1069 00:44:31,082 --> 00:44:35,051 You know, instead of seeking the counsel of the studio 1070 00:44:35,086 --> 00:44:37,536 and the network, I kind of took my own counsel 1071 00:44:37,571 --> 00:44:39,918 and said let's just keep going and try to make this better. 1072 00:44:39,953 --> 00:44:42,645 The poor directors really had nothing to prep with. 1073 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,683 By Mitch and the gang kind of getting these scripts 1074 00:44:45,717 --> 00:44:48,202 and always sort of right at the nick of time... 1075 00:44:48,237 --> 00:44:50,342 It just created this extra bit of energy. 1076 00:44:50,377 --> 00:44:51,896 If something wasn't working, 1077 00:44:51,930 --> 00:44:55,140 um, I couldn't sleep. I couldn't [STUTTERS] you know? I couldn't 1078 00:44:55,175 --> 00:44:57,522 eat. It just bothered me. 1079 00:44:57,556 --> 00:44:59,766 And that created the style of it. 1080 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,079 It... To me when I see it now, it's clearly the work of, um, 1081 00:45:03,735 --> 00:45:05,392 a maniac. 1082 00:45:05,426 --> 00:45:07,912 I think it was probably more difficult for 1083 00:45:07,946 --> 00:45:10,811 the production. 'Cause they had to pull things together 1084 00:45:10,846 --> 00:45:12,157 really quickly. 1085 00:45:12,192 --> 00:45:14,470 The writers would write, write, write, write, write, up until 1086 00:45:14,504 --> 00:45:17,576 the very last minute that they had to turn the script over to us... 1087 00:45:17,611 --> 00:45:21,270 Wonderful crew. They had very little prep time. 1088 00:45:21,304 --> 00:45:23,997 I... I... [STUTTERS] I don't know what went on in Mitch's head 1089 00:45:24,031 --> 00:45:26,620 most of the time. It was a mystery. 1090 00:45:26,654 --> 00:45:28,587 Everyone on the crew had to be fairly creative, 1091 00:45:28,622 --> 00:45:30,555 because you had to do stuff without it really being 1092 00:45:30,589 --> 00:45:31,832 on the page, often. 1093 00:45:31,867 --> 00:45:33,282 I remember once at a Christmas party 1094 00:45:33,316 --> 00:45:36,388 we called up John Amodeo, our producer, and asked him 1095 00:45:36,423 --> 00:45:37,873 if he could get us the Queen Mary. 1096 00:45:38,632 --> 00:45:41,048 [FOGHORN BLOWING] 1097 00:45:41,083 --> 00:45:43,085 [LAUGHS] "When?" "For Monday!" 1098 00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:44,534 It's like, Saturday night. [LAUGHING] 1099 00:45:44,569 --> 00:45:46,364 In the middle of Christmas season. 1100 00:45:46,398 --> 00:45:48,193 "Can you get us the Queen Mary?" 1101 00:45:48,228 --> 00:45:50,264 He calls us up Sunday "Hey, I got the Queen Mary!" 1102 00:45:50,299 --> 00:45:52,646 [CHUCKLING] 1103 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,131 Oh, I love Mitch, and we have a great relationship, 1104 00:45:55,166 --> 00:45:57,651 but I think it's fair to use the word insanity. 1105 00:45:57,685 --> 00:45:59,826 The double-edged sword of being Mitch is the 1106 00:45:59,860 --> 00:46:02,276 fun of working with the staff and the cast, but... 1107 00:46:02,311 --> 00:46:05,279 You know, he also had this real heavy lifting to do, 1108 00:46:05,314 --> 00:46:07,281 which is supervise the editing. 1109 00:46:07,316 --> 00:46:10,595 The editing room was just another phase of the writing stage. 1110 00:46:10,629 --> 00:46:12,977 He didn't edit in a timely manner. 1111 00:46:13,011 --> 00:46:14,668 He didn't do anything in a timely manner. 1112 00:46:14,702 --> 00:46:16,912 I know Mitch would go into the editing room and... 1113 00:46:16,946 --> 00:46:19,638 When they would edit, would basically re-write the show... 1114 00:46:19,673 --> 00:46:22,780 ...and try to make things, you know, funnier. 1115 00:46:22,814 --> 00:46:25,886 Not go the other direction. 'Cause you're losing jokes. 1116 00:46:25,921 --> 00:46:27,888 But instead, how do you scrunch it? 1117 00:46:27,923 --> 00:46:30,166 He could come up with new lines, and I know he'd actually 1118 00:46:30,201 --> 00:46:32,513 sit at the edit bay with a microphone, 1119 00:46:32,548 --> 00:46:34,239 and temp in lines. 1120 00:46:34,274 --> 00:46:37,208 So you would see shots of people's shoulders 1121 00:46:37,242 --> 00:46:38,692 or backs. 1122 00:46:38,726 --> 00:46:41,005 If you watch it, there's dialogue on people's backs... 1123 00:46:41,039 --> 00:46:42,834 He'd put different words in. 1124 00:46:42,869 --> 00:46:46,665 So in effect, he was re-writing beyond last possible moment. 1125 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:48,909 So he didn't get it done to start with, 1126 00:46:48,944 --> 00:46:51,118 he did it on set, and then he did it after. 1127 00:46:59,126 --> 00:47:01,922 I do love that they were able to insert some 1128 00:47:01,957 --> 00:47:04,373 political aspects into the show. 1129 00:47:07,065 --> 00:47:10,413 We did get a note early on, from the network, 1130 00:47:10,448 --> 00:47:12,208 'cause we had all this stuff about the Iraq War. 1131 00:47:12,243 --> 00:47:16,109 The whole Iraq War thing was really genius. 1132 00:47:16,143 --> 00:47:18,525 The concern was, you know, "Won't the Iraq War be over 1133 00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:19,906 "by the time this airs?" 1134 00:47:19,940 --> 00:47:21,459 "Aren't you a little worried it will be outdated?" 1135 00:47:21,493 --> 00:47:22,529 [CHUCKLES] I was like, "No, no, no." 1136 00:47:22,563 --> 00:47:24,186 Our grandkids will be part of that. 1137 00:47:24,220 --> 00:47:26,084 Bush, if he did give this country one thing, 1138 00:47:26,119 --> 00:47:30,986 it really was a deep sense of shame and irony 1139 00:47:31,020 --> 00:47:33,885 that was not lost on our, um, our writing staff. 1140 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,267 It was... It was generous of him. 1141 00:47:36,301 --> 00:47:37,889 We got away with murder. 1142 00:47:37,924 --> 00:47:40,443 Yeah. You don't see a lot of people throwing themselves 1143 00:47:40,478 --> 00:47:42,549 under buses. You know? 1144 00:47:42,583 --> 00:47:45,724 The subject matter was kind of risque. 1145 00:47:45,759 --> 00:47:49,004 With the war, and Bush, and, I mean, 1146 00:47:49,038 --> 00:47:50,384 it wasn't that subtle. 1147 00:47:50,419 --> 00:47:52,317 One of my favorite lines is when the newscaster 1148 00:47:52,352 --> 00:47:54,837 comes out and goes "WMDs found in Iraq. 1149 00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:57,564 "What this means for your weekend, tonight at 10:00." 1150 00:47:57,598 --> 00:47:59,462 When they're driving through Iraq they talk about 1151 00:47:59,497 --> 00:48:02,741 Halliburton Way, and Cheney Drive. 1152 00:48:02,776 --> 00:48:05,054 In the background, during one of the scenes they have the 1153 00:48:05,089 --> 00:48:06,642 "Mission Accomplished" banner. [CHUCKLES] 1154 00:48:06,676 --> 00:48:08,333 [SINGING TUNE] Solid as a rock! 1155 00:48:08,368 --> 00:48:10,508 One of my favorite subplots was the, you know, 1156 00:48:10,542 --> 00:48:13,821 Saddam Hussein, [LAUGHING] as a client. 1157 00:48:13,856 --> 00:48:16,928 TAMBOR: I actually was made up as Saddam when they buried me, 1158 00:48:16,963 --> 00:48:18,792 which was hysterically funny. 1159 00:48:18,826 --> 00:48:21,484 On these kind of major issues that are going on at the time, 1160 00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:24,073 they magically weaved them into the show. 1161 00:48:24,108 --> 00:48:27,835 But it wasn't the show. It didn't supersede the comedy. 1162 00:48:27,870 --> 00:48:30,873 I kind of hate political satire, but this show approached it 1163 00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:34,912 in a way that was funny, and topical but wasn't 1164 00:48:34,946 --> 00:48:36,534 bashing you in the head stupid about it. 1165 00:48:37,086 --> 00:48:39,606 These guys had balls. 1166 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,780 When you see the copyright dates of some of those 1167 00:48:41,815 --> 00:48:43,921 episodes, and the things that they were suggesting... 1168 00:48:43,955 --> 00:48:47,648 This is 2003, 2004, we've just invaded Iraq, 1169 00:48:47,683 --> 00:48:52,170 and someone had the balls to go in and to poke fun at it? 1170 00:48:52,205 --> 00:48:55,829 And put it on the Fox network of all places! 1171 00:48:55,863 --> 00:48:58,832 These guys... These guys have to go through those doors 1172 00:48:58,866 --> 00:49:02,111 sideways. You know? Those are some balls. 1173 00:49:02,836 --> 00:49:05,494 You kind of feel like 1174 00:49:05,528 --> 00:49:08,566 we slipped it past them somehow. You know? [LAUGHS] 1175 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,327 It's great to make, uh, humor out of something bad, y'know? 1176 00:49:11,362 --> 00:49:12,811 If you don't have that, what do you got? 1177 00:49:12,846 --> 00:49:14,744 It's a money laundering scheme... 1178 00:49:14,779 --> 00:49:16,746 It's corrupt businesses... 1179 00:49:16,781 --> 00:49:19,473 It's a fine line to be able to write political satire 1180 00:49:19,508 --> 00:49:21,648 that works as humor 1181 00:49:21,682 --> 00:49:24,651 even if you don't carry the politics into it. 1182 00:49:24,685 --> 00:49:29,380 And very, very perceptive vision in advance. 1183 00:49:29,414 --> 00:49:32,555 Um, by Mitch. This was a con job. 1184 00:49:42,565 --> 00:49:44,567 They just take things that 1185 00:49:44,602 --> 00:49:48,088 you should not even broach the subject 1186 00:49:48,123 --> 00:49:50,918 and they turn it into gold. 1187 00:49:50,953 --> 00:49:52,403 It's a little startling at first. 1188 00:49:52,437 --> 00:49:53,818 Like if you try and tell someone, 1189 00:49:54,784 --> 00:49:56,269 you know you kind of get some weird looks. 1190 00:49:56,303 --> 00:49:57,925 "What the hell are you watching?" You know? 1191 00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:59,651 It kind of shows you a microcosm of the risk 1192 00:49:59,686 --> 00:50:01,239 that this show took. 1193 00:50:01,274 --> 00:50:03,172 He's so cute and innocent, 1194 00:50:03,207 --> 00:50:06,037 but yet he has this, um, little dark secret. 1195 00:50:06,072 --> 00:50:10,214 He's just this classic 14, 15 year old guy, 1196 00:50:10,248 --> 00:50:14,045 with some crazy crush. And it just happens to be his cousin. 1197 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:15,184 Ultimately at the heart of the 1198 00:50:15,219 --> 00:50:17,842 George Michael-Maeby relationship, were, 1199 00:50:17,876 --> 00:50:19,982 you know, two kids that were really lonely. 1200 00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:22,364 It was actually my first kiss ever, that kiss with Michael. 1201 00:50:22,398 --> 00:50:24,228 And I remember one of the execs from Fox was there, 1202 00:50:24,262 --> 00:50:26,092 and I was like, "You know, I'm really nervous, actually, 1203 00:50:26,126 --> 00:50:27,369 "'cause I've never kissed anyone." 1204 00:50:27,403 --> 00:50:29,129 It was not a salacious relationship 1205 00:50:29,164 --> 00:50:30,648 between the two of them. 1206 00:50:30,682 --> 00:50:32,063 It was a boy who needed a sister. 1207 00:50:33,513 --> 00:50:35,756 And then wanted to see his sister naked. 1208 00:50:36,136 --> 00:50:37,724 -Ew! -Ah! 1209 00:50:37,758 --> 00:50:38,932 What the [BLEEP]? 1210 00:50:38,966 --> 00:50:41,900 -That's rad. -Yeah, yeah, incest is just a riot. 1211 00:50:41,935 --> 00:50:44,731 Especially on network TV It takes a special touch 1212 00:50:44,765 --> 00:50:49,701 to do incest. I think. To make it accessible to the masses. 1213 00:50:49,736 --> 00:50:52,773 I like the fact that he was constantly chasing her. 1214 00:50:52,808 --> 00:50:56,156 Which could be really offensive to a lot of people. 1215 00:50:56,191 --> 00:50:58,400 But there's such a fundamental sweetness to it. 1216 00:50:58,434 --> 00:51:00,574 You didn't think of them in terms of cousins. 1217 00:51:00,609 --> 00:51:03,577 You didn't care, because he was just so in love with her. 1218 00:51:03,612 --> 00:51:06,753 Their relationship and non-relationship as the case 1219 00:51:06,787 --> 00:51:09,963 may be, is probably one of the best conflicts in the entire show. 1220 00:51:09,997 --> 00:51:12,586 It's not gross, they don't do anything 1221 00:51:12,621 --> 00:51:16,142 that's necessarily wrong. You know? But it's just 1222 00:51:16,176 --> 00:51:17,626 kind of there. 1223 00:51:17,660 --> 00:51:20,318 But are they cousins? Is this my cousin, Maeby? 1224 00:51:20,353 --> 00:51:21,630 So maybe it's not. 1225 00:51:27,498 --> 00:51:30,363 [CARS BUSTLING] 1226 00:51:41,063 --> 00:51:45,654 [LIGHTNING STRIKES, THUNDER RUMBLES] 1227 00:51:56,389 --> 00:51:59,530 CREWMAN: A lot of the fans have talked about your rant. 1228 00:51:59,564 --> 00:52:01,670 Can you speak to that? 1229 00:52:01,704 --> 00:52:04,811 Um, I don't know exactly what triggered it, 1230 00:52:04,845 --> 00:52:07,745 but I do remember that we had just gotten, 1231 00:52:07,779 --> 00:52:10,403 I mean literally maybe 15 minutes ago, 1232 00:52:10,437 --> 00:52:13,716 or 10 minutes prior to that, we had just gotten a... 1233 00:52:13,751 --> 00:52:16,823 Yet another piece of bad news. I don't remember what it was, 1234 00:52:16,857 --> 00:52:19,101 it was, you know, we're gonna go on a break, 1235 00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:22,346 we're gonna shut down, or one of those things. 1236 00:52:22,380 --> 00:52:24,762 Jeffrey and I were talking about something and I just... 1237 00:52:24,796 --> 00:52:26,936 You know. You get angry. And you... 1238 00:52:26,971 --> 00:52:31,286 I wasn't doing it for the camera but I mean, I stand by it, you know. 1239 00:52:34,806 --> 00:52:37,637 I kind of knew that we just weren't gonna make it at Fox. 1240 00:52:37,671 --> 00:52:41,399 Fox gets so much bashing I guess for however they 1241 00:52:41,434 --> 00:52:43,436 you know, promoted or marketed the show. 1242 00:52:43,470 --> 00:52:46,370 This show is a weird animal. It was always very hard 1243 00:52:46,404 --> 00:52:47,474 for them to figure out what to do with it. 1244 00:52:48,441 --> 00:52:50,788 I do think they tried to market it. 1245 00:52:50,822 --> 00:52:52,893 There was a lot of support for the show. 1246 00:52:52,928 --> 00:52:54,550 And some people would disagree with me... 1247 00:52:54,585 --> 00:52:57,519 Fox didn't advertise. That was a big problem. 1248 00:52:57,553 --> 00:52:58,830 Yeah, I mean maybe they could have marketed 1249 00:52:58,865 --> 00:52:59,866 a little bit different. 1250 00:53:00,487 --> 00:53:03,456 They didn't have 1251 00:53:03,490 --> 00:53:07,287 the backing to aggressively promote the show. 1252 00:53:07,322 --> 00:53:09,772 There's a lot of power in marketing. 1253 00:53:09,807 --> 00:53:13,604 And they really can change the outcome of something. 1254 00:53:13,638 --> 00:53:17,401 I think they... I think did everything that they knew how to do. 1255 00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:19,126 I don't want to comment on how well they did it, 1256 00:53:19,161 --> 00:53:21,405 I know that they [BLEEP] tried. 1257 00:53:22,095 --> 00:53:23,407 Hard. 1258 00:53:23,441 --> 00:53:26,720 They were held responsible for my belief, 1259 00:53:26,755 --> 00:53:29,861 which was that if you try to make every single part of it 1260 00:53:29,896 --> 00:53:32,623 funny, an audience will come. 1261 00:53:32,657 --> 00:53:33,934 And that really was my belief. 1262 00:53:33,969 --> 00:53:35,971 I felt that they didn't get it. 1263 00:53:36,005 --> 00:53:38,836 It's difficult for a network to promote to its viewers 1264 00:53:38,870 --> 00:53:40,734 a show that really doesn't resemble anything 1265 00:53:40,769 --> 00:53:42,080 that's out there. 1266 00:53:42,115 --> 00:53:46,292 I don't think they knew what it was, or knew 1267 00:53:46,326 --> 00:53:48,259 who the audience was. 1268 00:53:48,294 --> 00:53:50,399 And obviously Fox has had a really hard time 1269 00:53:50,434 --> 00:53:52,401 breaking any comedy hits. Other than animation. 1270 00:53:52,436 --> 00:53:53,713 Period. 1271 00:53:53,747 --> 00:53:55,922 I wasn't trying to do something that was 1272 00:53:55,956 --> 00:53:57,475 so obscure that people didn't get it. 1273 00:53:57,510 --> 00:54:00,237 I was trying to create something that people 1274 00:54:00,271 --> 00:54:02,722 had to make an effort for. 1275 00:54:02,756 --> 00:54:05,138 They didn't have a lot of great time slots, 1276 00:54:05,172 --> 00:54:07,934 and the whole Sunday night at 9:30pm, you know, 1277 00:54:07,968 --> 00:54:09,280 was a death slot. 1278 00:54:09,315 --> 00:54:12,525 Their network at the time was Simpsonsand King of the Hill, 1279 00:54:12,559 --> 00:54:14,181 and Family Guy on Sunday night. 1280 00:54:14,216 --> 00:54:18,634 And this didn't fit into either of those boxes... 1281 00:54:18,669 --> 00:54:19,980 They had a difficult task. 1282 00:54:20,015 --> 00:54:21,361 And I think it lasted longer than 1283 00:54:21,396 --> 00:54:24,330 anybody at Fox really would have wanted it to. 1284 00:54:24,364 --> 00:54:27,367 I think it was a sore point for them. 1285 00:54:27,402 --> 00:54:29,990 Mitch told us once that he had actually gone to someone 1286 00:54:30,025 --> 00:54:32,510 in the network, and I swear to God they said to him: 1287 00:54:32,545 --> 00:54:36,480 "Do you mind dumbing it down just a little bit? Come on." 1288 00:54:36,514 --> 00:54:39,448 Many times people wanted to reshape the show, 1289 00:54:39,483 --> 00:54:42,555 or try to find a single focus as opposed to the 1290 00:54:42,589 --> 00:54:45,178 several stories that the show has. 1291 00:54:45,212 --> 00:54:46,869 And he just, would always resist it. 1292 00:54:46,904 --> 00:54:48,664 The only things they could give notes on, 1293 00:54:48,699 --> 00:54:50,045 were the scripts. 1294 00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:53,393 The note was, "Can you do 15% less?" 1295 00:54:53,428 --> 00:54:55,568 You know, "Does it have to be so complicated?" 1296 00:54:55,602 --> 00:54:57,949 There was a time I thought there were too many stories. 1297 00:54:57,984 --> 00:55:01,021 You know, it's hard to follow that many stories... 1298 00:55:01,608 --> 00:55:04,335 Not a bad note. Actually. 1299 00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:06,233 Probably, if we had taken it, 1300 00:55:06,268 --> 00:55:08,512 um, I wouldn't be in this [BLEEP]! 1301 00:55:09,167 --> 00:55:10,583 [LAUGHING] 1302 00:55:14,449 --> 00:55:17,037 HURWITZ: They were very respectful. 1303 00:55:17,072 --> 00:55:19,557 And they were very worried. You know, they... 1304 00:55:19,592 --> 00:55:21,766 They put a lot of money into this thing. 1305 00:55:21,801 --> 00:55:24,493 I mean, they probably put over 50 million dollars 1306 00:55:24,528 --> 00:55:25,874 into making this. 1307 00:55:25,908 --> 00:55:28,083 What people tend to forget though, is that they did give 1308 00:55:28,117 --> 00:55:30,396 us two and a half years, and they didn't have to. 1309 00:55:30,430 --> 00:55:33,330 They didn't feel it was worth the extra step of 1310 00:55:33,364 --> 00:55:35,332 also spending a lot of money on promotion, and that's 1311 00:55:35,366 --> 00:55:38,680 just an equation that studios have to make. 1312 00:55:39,784 --> 00:55:41,924 We also thought that 1313 00:55:41,959 --> 00:55:44,962 the country would catch on. 1314 00:55:44,996 --> 00:55:46,412 That's what I don't get. 1315 00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:49,242 For the most part, 1316 00:55:49,276 --> 00:55:51,796 the heart of the country did not watch the show. 1317 00:55:52,694 --> 00:55:54,558 And 1318 00:55:54,592 --> 00:55:56,456 by the heart I mean 1319 00:55:58,424 --> 00:55:59,494 the middle. 1320 00:56:00,495 --> 00:56:02,220 Like the Midwest. 1321 00:56:03,118 --> 00:56:04,878 They're to blame. 1322 00:56:04,913 --> 00:56:08,779 In every definition of the word "missed", uh, America missed it. 1323 00:56:08,813 --> 00:56:11,713 America Ferrara? The girl who plays Ugly Betty? 1324 00:56:11,747 --> 00:56:13,715 I don't know if she ever watched it! 1325 00:56:13,749 --> 00:56:15,510 Huh... 1326 00:56:15,544 --> 00:56:18,375 Every critic at every newspaper says, 1327 00:56:18,409 --> 00:56:20,204 "This is the best sitcom on TV." 1328 00:56:20,238 --> 00:56:22,827 But for some reason, America says, 1329 00:56:22,862 --> 00:56:24,208 "Oh, I've never heard of it." 1330 00:56:24,242 --> 00:56:27,936 Unfortunately a lot of the really good shows that are critically 1331 00:56:27,970 --> 00:56:31,042 acclaimed, they don't... People don't watch them. 1332 00:56:31,077 --> 00:56:33,735 The audience has been systematically taught 1333 00:56:33,769 --> 00:56:35,461 over the generations, 1334 00:56:35,495 --> 00:56:38,498 "Just sit there! We'll throw this stuff at you! 1335 00:56:38,533 --> 00:56:41,018 "If it hits you in the forehead, you'll enjoy it! 1336 00:56:41,052 --> 00:56:43,089 "If not, we'll cancel it and throw something else 1337 00:56:43,123 --> 00:56:44,331 "at you." 1338 00:56:44,366 --> 00:56:47,576 I mean most people don't even know it existed, really. 1339 00:56:47,611 --> 00:56:51,097 We sure did our part. We told everybody we knew about it. 1340 00:56:51,131 --> 00:56:52,685 [SCOFFS] I don't know, people just didn't watch it. 1341 00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:53,996 I'd hear her talking about it, 1342 00:56:54,031 --> 00:56:55,273 "Yeah it's one of my favorite shows..." 1343 00:56:55,308 --> 00:56:56,482 Nothing. 1344 00:56:56,516 --> 00:56:59,623 I would call my family, who lives in different parts 1345 00:56:59,657 --> 00:57:02,108 of the country and say, "Did you see my show?" 1346 00:57:02,142 --> 00:57:03,937 And most of them would say, "Yeah, I didn't like it." 1347 00:57:03,972 --> 00:57:06,595 I wouldn't watch the show, 'cause I don't watch shows. 1348 00:57:06,630 --> 00:57:09,356 Uh, and I don't like when I'm filming to watch the show. 1349 00:57:09,391 --> 00:57:11,704 And Jason would get really mad at me. He would go, 1350 00:57:11,738 --> 00:57:14,845 "You know, we'd all... We'd all like a little help!" 1351 00:57:14,879 --> 00:57:17,675 I would guess that half the people that saw the show 1352 00:57:17,710 --> 00:57:21,161 saw the show on a digital video recorder, you know, 1353 00:57:21,196 --> 00:57:24,510 like a TiVo. Or on, um, on DVD. 1354 00:57:24,544 --> 00:57:28,065 And as soon as you do that, you're off the ratings grid. 1355 00:57:28,099 --> 00:57:29,756 We also just missed, you know, 1356 00:57:29,791 --> 00:57:33,898 like the Nielsen Rating Group started following you know, college dorms. 1357 00:57:33,933 --> 00:57:36,487 And that was a big part of our, uh, fan base. 1358 00:57:36,522 --> 00:57:37,902 We would have it on the TV in the background 1359 00:57:37,937 --> 00:57:40,318 to get ratings, you know. Like on every TV in the house. 1360 00:57:40,353 --> 00:57:41,458 But I don't think 1361 00:57:41,492 --> 00:57:43,321 we had Nielsen, so it was probably useless. 1362 00:57:43,356 --> 00:57:45,565 I think Arrestedreally believed in its audience. 1363 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,154 More so than maybe any other show I've ever worked on. 1364 00:57:48,188 --> 00:57:50,570 In a way I think it's good that it never had that mass appeal. 1365 00:57:50,605 --> 00:57:52,330 I know it doesn't help everybody's pocketbook 1366 00:57:52,365 --> 00:57:55,126 at the end of the day, but it was never gonna 1367 00:57:55,161 --> 00:57:57,232 appeal to the, uh, the entire country. 1368 00:57:57,266 --> 00:58:00,511 It required some work as a viewer, where as 1369 00:58:00,546 --> 00:58:02,548 most shows are like 1370 00:58:02,582 --> 00:58:04,550 warm gruel that gets 1371 00:58:04,584 --> 00:58:07,207 spoon-fed to you while you lay on the couch, 1372 00:58:07,242 --> 00:58:08,519 calcifying. 1373 00:58:08,554 --> 00:58:10,659 You kind of lose hope in people. 1374 00:58:10,694 --> 00:58:13,662 You know, we need to be hit over the head with a joke. 1375 00:58:13,697 --> 00:58:16,182 People need to be reminded, Oh, guess what? That's funny! 1376 00:58:16,216 --> 00:58:17,424 Laugh! 1377 00:58:17,459 --> 00:58:19,599 And the fact that this show did not have a laugh track, 1378 00:58:19,634 --> 00:58:22,015 and didn't telegraph the areas 1379 00:58:22,050 --> 00:58:24,017 where the audience should laugh, I think 1380 00:58:24,052 --> 00:58:26,986 hurt it with the vast majority of people. 1381 00:58:27,020 --> 00:58:28,125 How sad is that? 1382 00:58:28,159 --> 00:58:30,921 I think America missed this show by six months. 1383 00:58:30,955 --> 00:58:35,373 Over at NBC, uh, when The Officecame out, 1384 00:58:35,408 --> 00:58:37,617 they knew that they were, even though they weren't 1385 00:58:37,652 --> 00:58:40,068 getting big ratings, uh, they were... 1386 00:58:40,102 --> 00:58:42,588 People were downloading it, people were paying for it... 1387 00:58:42,622 --> 00:58:44,866 You know, maybe it's a good show to be downloaded. 1388 00:58:44,900 --> 00:58:48,386 Easy to stop and start, go back and catch that joke again... 1389 00:58:48,421 --> 00:58:50,630 Because then they would have been able to go 1390 00:58:50,665 --> 00:58:53,530 over to Rupert Murdoch and say "No, you don't understand, 1391 00:58:53,564 --> 00:58:55,186 "Rupert. It's making money." 1392 00:58:55,221 --> 00:58:56,947 Money! 1393 00:58:56,981 --> 00:58:59,743 I think that maybe America wasn't ready for this show. 1394 00:58:59,777 --> 00:59:01,883 The part of America that did miss this show, 1395 00:59:01,917 --> 00:59:05,093 is the same America that watches reality TV 1396 00:59:05,127 --> 00:59:07,958 It's better than 95% of the [BLEEP] that's on now. 1397 00:59:07,992 --> 00:59:10,132 When shows like Dancing with the Stars 1398 00:59:10,167 --> 00:59:12,997 and American Idolare the most popular TV shows... 1399 00:59:13,032 --> 00:59:14,758 I don't know. I think there's something wrong with that. 1400 00:59:14,792 --> 00:59:17,105 'Cause reality TV is just... 1401 00:59:17,139 --> 00:59:19,452 It's just awful. [LAUGHS] It's just [STUTTERS] It's... 1402 00:59:19,486 --> 00:59:21,558 -Yeah. -There's no writing. 1403 00:59:21,592 --> 00:59:23,456 Look at all the crap we have on TV! 1404 00:59:23,490 --> 00:59:25,389 -Crap. -It's all crap. 1405 00:59:25,423 --> 00:59:26,735 You just kind of want to tell people, 1406 00:59:26,770 --> 00:59:27,943 "What the [BLEEP] is the matter with you? Why are you 1407 00:59:27,978 --> 00:59:29,427 "watching stuff like this?" 1408 00:59:29,462 --> 00:59:31,084 I don't know how else to put it really. 1409 00:59:31,119 --> 00:59:32,603 America, what were you thinking? 1410 00:59:33,224 --> 00:59:34,605 God, you should... 1411 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,676 I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed, America. 1412 00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,336 I'm a great parent to America, by the way. 1413 00:59:41,370 --> 00:59:43,234 Anyway, go ahead America. You're fine. 1414 00:59:48,723 --> 00:59:51,311 I hate to say this, but when I started watching the show 1415 00:59:51,346 --> 00:59:53,486 even from the first season, I always kind of thought 1416 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,074 it was doomed. 1417 00:59:55,108 --> 00:59:57,317 I was at the, um, 1418 00:59:57,352 --> 01:00:01,114 Vanity Fairafter party for the Oscars one year. 1419 01:00:01,149 --> 01:00:03,703 And, um, Rupert Murdoch was there... 1420 01:00:03,738 --> 01:00:07,534 We really were a ratings fiasco. 1421 01:00:07,569 --> 01:00:09,951 He was very excited about talking about 24, 1422 01:00:09,985 --> 01:00:11,608 which is a Fox show. 1423 01:00:11,642 --> 01:00:13,920 And I said "Yeah, 24. That's great. 1424 01:00:13,955 --> 01:00:15,957 "And I'm really... I love Arrested Development." 1425 01:00:15,991 --> 01:00:19,063 No matter how brilliant a show is, 1426 01:00:19,098 --> 01:00:21,445 it does not mean that it's gonna stay on the air. 1427 01:00:21,479 --> 01:00:23,792 And he said, 1428 01:00:23,827 --> 01:00:27,727 "That's a cable show. That shouldn't be on the networks." 1429 01:00:27,762 --> 01:00:31,593 And I just kind of went "Ha. Eh, ah, we're [BLEEP]." 1430 01:00:31,628 --> 01:00:34,147 [CHUCKLES] We are [BLEEP] now. 1431 01:00:34,182 --> 01:00:36,633 Basically a show gets canceled for one reason, 1432 01:00:36,667 --> 01:00:38,186 it doesn't get ratings. 1433 01:00:38,220 --> 01:00:40,395 You know? It's not that complicated. 1434 01:00:40,429 --> 01:00:43,294 [CREWMAN SPEAKING] 1435 01:00:43,329 --> 01:00:44,364 Canceled! 1436 01:00:47,885 --> 01:00:49,576 I do want to say I was a little surprised 1437 01:00:49,611 --> 01:00:51,682 that it lasted as long as it did. 1438 01:00:51,717 --> 01:00:54,685 I never got involved when a TV show was canceled. 1439 01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,583 I, you know, they come and they go. 1440 01:00:56,618 --> 01:00:58,033 But when that show got canceled it really 1441 01:00:58,068 --> 01:00:59,897 bothered me deep down. 1442 01:00:59,932 --> 01:01:02,589 I felt the need to like, sign petitions. 1443 01:01:02,624 --> 01:01:05,316 You know? For a TV show. I never did that before in my life. 1444 01:01:05,351 --> 01:01:08,423 When I finally read the news that they'd canceled the show, 1445 01:01:08,457 --> 01:01:09,631 it was like a punch in the gut. 1446 01:01:10,287 --> 01:01:11,495 I wanted to cry. 1447 01:01:11,529 --> 01:01:14,049 We weren't canceled. We were taken into an alley 1448 01:01:14,084 --> 01:01:15,568 and shot in the back of the head. 1449 01:01:15,602 --> 01:01:18,053 This show had 1450 01:01:18,088 --> 01:01:21,712 lymph node cancer and was diagnosed with 1451 01:01:21,747 --> 01:01:25,129 multiple compound fractures, contusions, internal bleeding, 1452 01:01:25,785 --> 01:01:26,855 from the beginning. 1453 01:01:26,890 --> 01:01:28,857 No one expected the pilot to get picked up. 1454 01:01:28,892 --> 01:01:31,101 I thought I had the way to make it a hit. 1455 01:01:31,549 --> 01:01:32,758 I was wrong. 1456 01:01:32,792 --> 01:01:34,207 No one expected to get the second season... 1457 01:01:34,242 --> 01:01:35,312 It was just like, 1458 01:01:35,346 --> 01:01:36,451 "When are they gonna cancel it?" 1459 01:01:36,485 --> 01:01:37,521 That was all we ever said. 1460 01:01:37,555 --> 01:01:39,143 "When are they gonna cancel it? When?" 1461 01:01:39,178 --> 01:01:41,870 And no one expected to get the last half. 1462 01:01:41,905 --> 01:01:44,735 Every time we'd do a section of 13 episodes, 1463 01:01:44,770 --> 01:01:46,426 we really didn't know if we were coming back. 1464 01:01:46,461 --> 01:01:48,635 We never really felt like 1465 01:01:48,670 --> 01:01:50,879 a ton of people were watching it. 1466 01:01:50,914 --> 01:01:52,260 Turned out to be true. 1467 01:01:52,294 --> 01:01:56,126 We really did a cable show on network television. 1468 01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,645 You know, you just can't have a show on network TV 1469 01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:01,994 and not get the numbers that make sense for them. 1470 01:02:02,028 --> 01:02:05,307 It's all about advertising and all these crazy things 1471 01:02:05,342 --> 01:02:08,276 that have nothing to do with creativity. 1472 01:02:08,310 --> 01:02:10,588 This sounds so odd, 1473 01:02:10,623 --> 01:02:12,694 in a way I was glad we were canceled, 1474 01:02:12,729 --> 01:02:15,179 because I was... I was just sick of the fight. 1475 01:02:15,214 --> 01:02:18,804 And sick of the, that, that hanging on the ledge, 1476 01:02:18,838 --> 01:02:20,426 Oh, our numbers? 1477 01:02:20,460 --> 01:02:23,498 I don't know if the ratings ever really changed. [LAUGHS] 1478 01:02:23,532 --> 01:02:25,431 We felt like the ratings changed. 1479 01:02:25,465 --> 01:02:27,847 It had to do with the 18-49 audience, 1480 01:02:27,882 --> 01:02:30,643 which is, you know, the audience everybody wants, 1481 01:02:30,677 --> 01:02:32,196 because of advertising. 1482 01:02:32,231 --> 01:02:34,785 And, um, we didn't get the numbers, as they say. 1483 01:02:34,820 --> 01:02:36,718 You know? That's what... That's what happened. 1484 01:02:37,857 --> 01:02:39,445 It wasn't that much of a shock. 1485 01:02:39,479 --> 01:02:41,585 You know, we... we kind of saw it coming. 1486 01:02:41,619 --> 01:02:43,000 We didn't know week to week 1487 01:02:43,035 --> 01:02:45,037 whether we were going back to work. 1488 01:02:45,071 --> 01:02:46,176 For a long time. 1489 01:02:46,210 --> 01:02:49,041 Maybe all along it really needed to be a cable show. 1490 01:02:49,075 --> 01:02:50,490 You know? Who knows. 1491 01:02:54,494 --> 01:02:56,531 So I don't mean to be sour grapes about it 1492 01:02:56,565 --> 01:02:59,258 but the one thing that was slightly amusing in retrospect 1493 01:02:59,292 --> 01:03:02,537 was they had heavily, heavily promoted their new 1494 01:03:02,571 --> 01:03:05,160 Pamela Anderson show called Stacked. 1495 01:03:05,195 --> 01:03:07,784 And I just thought that was hilarious that like, a show 1496 01:03:07,818 --> 01:03:10,027 about Pamela Anderson being some kind of like... 1497 01:03:10,062 --> 01:03:12,202 In a bookstore? Or something like that? 1498 01:03:12,236 --> 01:03:13,997 It was like, you know, Desperate Housewives 1499 01:03:14,031 --> 01:03:15,136 was a hit... 1500 01:03:15,826 --> 01:03:17,034 And they have breasts. 1501 01:03:17,897 --> 01:03:19,312 We'll just call it [BLEEP]! 1502 01:03:19,347 --> 01:03:21,487 [CHUCKLES] You know? Stacked! 1503 01:03:21,521 --> 01:03:24,697 Ah, it's the biggest hit that's ever been on TV, Stacked! 1504 01:03:25,732 --> 01:03:27,424 I just couldn't understand it. 1505 01:03:27,458 --> 01:03:29,357 You know, and then it did less numbers than we did. 1506 01:03:30,220 --> 01:03:31,704 It was just really disappointing 1507 01:03:31,738 --> 01:03:35,259 that Fox put the last four episodes in a row, 1508 01:03:35,294 --> 01:03:37,089 two hours, back-to-back. 1509 01:03:37,123 --> 01:03:39,332 Right up against the Winter Olympics. 1510 01:03:39,367 --> 01:03:41,576 And the airing was ridiculous. 1511 01:03:41,610 --> 01:03:43,302 What a way to end the show. 1512 01:03:44,510 --> 01:03:46,029 That was kind of, you know. 1513 01:03:46,063 --> 01:03:48,514 "Guys! What are you doing to us?" You know. 1514 01:03:48,548 --> 01:03:49,964 "We don't even have a chance." 1515 01:03:49,998 --> 01:03:52,518 Felt like, "You guys don't have anywhere you can put this 1516 01:03:52,552 --> 01:03:54,175 "to get some ratings?" 1517 01:03:54,209 --> 01:03:56,694 It was indicative, again, of how the show was sorta... 1518 01:03:56,729 --> 01:03:57,730 Treated. 1519 01:03:58,904 --> 01:04:00,767 You know, corporate is corporate. 1520 01:04:00,802 --> 01:04:04,254 There's nothing better than to watch, you know, your blood 1521 01:04:04,288 --> 01:04:07,119 and sweat and tears thrown away. 1522 01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:10,156 I don't know. When a network cancels a show, 1523 01:04:10,191 --> 01:04:12,089 they no longer give a shit. 1524 01:04:12,124 --> 01:04:14,574 I think at that point I just, it was like totally 1525 01:04:14,609 --> 01:04:16,404 made for the fans. 1526 01:04:16,438 --> 01:04:18,440 I kind of thought, "Well, maybe it will be easier. 1527 01:04:18,475 --> 01:04:20,580 "You know maybe I'll just be able to do anything I want." 1528 01:04:20,615 --> 01:04:22,513 And I realized, no. It's... 1529 01:04:22,548 --> 01:04:23,618 "It's gonna be just as hard, 1530 01:04:23,652 --> 01:04:25,413 and we have to make it all fit. 1531 01:04:25,447 --> 01:04:28,485 It was frustrating. But having been a network executive 1532 01:04:28,519 --> 01:04:30,763 I... I know the rules of the game. And 1533 01:04:30,797 --> 01:04:33,973 once they cancel you and they say there's not a future, 1534 01:04:34,008 --> 01:04:35,837 you know, they just throw you out there. 1535 01:04:37,252 --> 01:04:38,909 I do think they tried. 1536 01:04:42,982 --> 01:04:44,984 At the Iowa caucuses, 1537 01:04:45,019 --> 01:04:47,400 my wife Cheryl and my kids all went. 1538 01:04:47,435 --> 01:04:50,093 At this point, Cheryl and I were working on behalf 1539 01:04:50,127 --> 01:04:52,164 of Hillary Clinton. 1540 01:04:52,198 --> 01:04:55,339 And there were these two guys... These young guys. 1541 01:04:55,374 --> 01:04:57,721 I eventually went over and sidled up to these guys, 1542 01:04:57,755 --> 01:04:59,481 and all they wanted to talk about was 1543 01:04:59,516 --> 01:05:00,897 Arrested Development. 1544 01:05:00,931 --> 01:05:03,554 And I turned and I started to go. 1545 01:05:03,589 --> 01:05:04,762 And, um... 1546 01:05:04,797 --> 01:05:06,178 The tall guy said "Ron!" 1547 01:05:07,144 --> 01:05:08,835 "I'll make a deal with you. 1548 01:05:08,870 --> 01:05:12,460 "If we're asked to choose another candidate 1549 01:05:12,494 --> 01:05:14,600 "we'll go with Hillary. 1550 01:05:14,634 --> 01:05:17,154 "But you have to promise me 1551 01:05:17,189 --> 01:05:19,570 "you make the Arrested Developmentmovie." 1552 01:05:20,951 --> 01:05:23,091 No matter where I go in the world, 1553 01:05:23,126 --> 01:05:24,230 the question is... 1554 01:05:24,265 --> 01:05:26,025 "Is there gonna be a film? Is there gonna be a film?" 1555 01:05:26,060 --> 01:05:27,440 "Hey, when's the movie coming out?" 1556 01:05:27,475 --> 01:05:28,648 -Movie. -Movie! 1557 01:05:28,683 --> 01:05:30,788 Movie, movie, movie! 1558 01:05:30,823 --> 01:05:34,206 I think it would really lend itself to the big screen. 1559 01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:36,691 Just as a fan, I pray that the rumors are true. 1560 01:05:36,725 --> 01:05:38,658 I think it'd be the best thing in the world. 1561 01:05:38,693 --> 01:05:41,109 I think everybody wants to see that team back together again 1562 01:05:41,144 --> 01:05:42,939 and then they really could pick up where they left off. 1563 01:05:42,973 --> 01:05:45,044 The principle element to it is, 1564 01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:49,497 an opportunity for all of us to enjoy them. Again. 1565 01:05:49,531 --> 01:05:51,499 I don't know what the status of the movie is, to be honest. 1566 01:05:51,533 --> 01:05:53,501 CREWMAN: Can you say that without the glass? 1567 01:05:54,847 --> 01:05:58,437 I don't know what the status of the movie is. I... Um... 1568 01:05:58,471 --> 01:06:00,232 I'm not entirely sure what the status of the movie is. 1569 01:06:00,266 --> 01:06:02,061 I think the movie is gonna happen, you know. I know 1570 01:06:02,096 --> 01:06:03,752 Mitch has been talking about it. 1571 01:06:03,787 --> 01:06:06,134 We, uh, we have been talking about doing this movie. 1572 01:06:06,169 --> 01:06:08,654 That's why he ended that last episode saying, you know, 1573 01:06:08,688 --> 01:06:10,173 "Maybe a movie." 1574 01:06:10,207 --> 01:06:12,589 I know that Jason has been talking about it in the press. 1575 01:06:13,176 --> 01:06:14,349 A lot. 1576 01:06:14,384 --> 01:06:16,731 We've all really been very honest with the media. I mean, 1577 01:06:16,765 --> 01:06:18,008 almost to a fault. 1578 01:06:18,043 --> 01:06:19,734 Mitch is supposedly writing it. 1579 01:06:19,768 --> 01:06:22,219 A script could be written. It may not be written. 1580 01:06:22,254 --> 01:06:24,014 It may never get written. 1581 01:06:24,049 --> 01:06:25,982 We'll see how much they zoom, and... 1582 01:06:27,052 --> 01:06:29,744 And make the audience seasick on the big screen. 1583 01:06:29,778 --> 01:06:32,816 The movie has been rumored ever since the show 1584 01:06:32,850 --> 01:06:34,128 first got canceled. 1585 01:06:34,162 --> 01:06:35,922 We were talking about the movie 1586 01:06:35,957 --> 01:06:38,580 as early as the first season. 1587 01:06:38,615 --> 01:06:40,410 I remember talking to Mitch about it. 1588 01:06:40,444 --> 01:06:43,413 I think about doing the movie. I have some plot ideas. 1589 01:06:43,447 --> 01:06:46,623 I think they had a lot more to say, and a lot more to do. 1590 01:06:46,657 --> 01:06:49,212 I read stuff on the internet that people are like, "Enough 1591 01:06:49,246 --> 01:06:51,179 "already with the movie rumors." You know? 1592 01:06:51,214 --> 01:06:53,112 It's like "Guys, either do it, or don't." 1593 01:06:53,147 --> 01:06:54,286 Do you think I should do it? 1594 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,564 And then Mitch started making phone calls around to us 1595 01:06:56,598 --> 01:06:58,600 finding out who would be on board, and who wouldn't. 1596 01:06:58,635 --> 01:07:00,740 He was just pretty much like "So, if we do make it, 1597 01:07:00,775 --> 01:07:02,397 "would you be a part of it?" And I was like... 1598 01:07:02,432 --> 01:07:03,605 "All right. Sure." 1599 01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:06,263 I mean, the fact is I think we would all love to do it. 1600 01:07:06,298 --> 01:07:07,609 They all want to. 1601 01:07:07,644 --> 01:07:09,611 I certainly would welcome it. I love it. 1602 01:07:09,646 --> 01:07:12,545 I've talked to Bateman, I've talked to Will, 1603 01:07:12,580 --> 01:07:14,202 everybody wants to do it. 1604 01:07:14,237 --> 01:07:17,619 It seems like a pretty simple question for me. 1605 01:07:17,654 --> 01:07:19,932 I mean even when we were being canceled, 1606 01:07:19,966 --> 01:07:21,796 he took advantage of the cancellation and 1607 01:07:21,830 --> 01:07:25,248 wrote it in. So I know he'll write whatever is going on 1608 01:07:25,282 --> 01:07:28,320 or whatever stories are going on, who's on board, who's not 1609 01:07:28,354 --> 01:07:31,081 on board... Whatever. It's all gonna be in there. 1610 01:07:32,289 --> 01:07:33,704 It's very possible. 1611 01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:37,156 Whether or not they call me, I don't know if there's gonna 1612 01:07:37,191 --> 01:07:40,987 be room for all the many characters who came to visit. 1613 01:07:41,022 --> 01:07:42,610 Maybe I'll come back as a twin brother. 1614 01:07:43,128 --> 01:07:45,268 You want to know... 1615 01:07:45,302 --> 01:07:48,409 You know, "Where the [BLEEP] is Maeby gonna be in five years? 1616 01:07:48,443 --> 01:07:50,238 "What happens to Buster?" 1617 01:07:50,273 --> 01:07:52,516 Maybe his hand becomes bionic! 1618 01:07:52,551 --> 01:07:54,484 There's got to be an Arrestedmovie. 1619 01:07:54,518 --> 01:07:55,657 You know, come on! 1620 01:07:55,692 --> 01:07:57,487 There's obviously been a lot of talk about it, 1621 01:07:57,521 --> 01:07:59,144 you know. And I hope that happens, I wouldn't bet 1622 01:07:59,178 --> 01:08:00,593 on that one either. 1623 01:08:00,628 --> 01:08:03,320 For some reason, Arrested Development 1624 01:08:03,355 --> 01:08:05,805 and money have never been friends. 1625 01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,361 [CHUCKLES] Maybe 'cause the show ultimately 1626 01:08:09,395 --> 01:08:11,363 makes fun of people who had money. 1627 01:08:11,397 --> 01:08:14,020 Maybe we actually did try to say something. 1628 01:08:14,055 --> 01:08:15,505 Maybe we change the world. 1629 01:08:16,057 --> 01:08:17,852 Just a little bit. 1630 01:08:17,886 --> 01:08:19,957 You know, the other side of that is that you have 1631 01:08:19,992 --> 01:08:22,443 Ron Howard, who can get movies done. 1632 01:08:23,133 --> 01:08:24,617 Look, it's happening. 1633 01:08:25,515 --> 01:08:26,654 By all accounts. 1634 01:08:26,688 --> 01:08:29,346 I was in the bathroom at the DGA 1635 01:08:29,381 --> 01:08:31,452 and I look up and Ron Howard is 1636 01:08:31,486 --> 01:08:33,005 in the, um, the urinal. 1637 01:08:33,039 --> 01:08:34,593 There were a lot of rumors flying around. 1638 01:08:34,627 --> 01:08:37,458 I'm not the kind of guy who approaches guys 1639 01:08:37,492 --> 01:08:38,735 at a urinal... 1640 01:08:38,769 --> 01:08:40,392 I'd, by God, be the narrator. 1641 01:08:40,426 --> 01:08:42,497 They can't give anybody else that microphone! 1642 01:08:42,532 --> 01:08:44,672 He was a big fan of the show. 1643 01:08:44,706 --> 01:08:46,018 So I mean, maybe... 1644 01:08:46,052 --> 01:08:49,642 We're now no longer talking about who's in, who's out, 1645 01:08:49,677 --> 01:08:51,989 what's it gonna be, when's it coming out? 1646 01:08:52,024 --> 01:08:54,785 He says they have the money to make that movie. 1647 01:08:54,820 --> 01:08:56,822 -[CHUCKLES] -CREWMAN: So I can't... 1648 01:08:57,616 --> 01:08:59,514 You can ask anything you want. 1649 01:08:59,549 --> 01:09:01,758 [LAUGHING HEARTILY] Ask away! 1650 01:09:01,792 --> 01:09:03,691 I think everyone needs closure, although I don't 1651 01:09:03,725 --> 01:09:06,142 know how he's gonna wrap this thing up. 1652 01:09:06,176 --> 01:09:08,420 Well, at the very least a Christmas special, 1653 01:09:08,454 --> 01:09:10,249 where they sing songs. 1654 01:09:11,043 --> 01:09:12,941 [CREWMAN SPEAKING] 1655 01:09:16,290 --> 01:09:17,498 Not happening. 1656 01:09:17,532 --> 01:09:18,913 [CREWMAN SPEAKING] 1657 01:09:18,947 --> 01:09:20,708 The show is not coming back. 1658 01:09:20,742 --> 01:09:24,919 It's gotten a lot bigger on DVD, a lot more fans... 1659 01:09:24,953 --> 01:09:26,783 Nothing likeFamily Guy. 1660 01:09:37,345 --> 01:09:38,622 WOMAN: Would you watch it? 1661 01:09:38,657 --> 01:09:40,452 -Yeah, yeah totally. -Yeah. 1662 01:09:40,486 --> 01:09:42,039 I would definitely watch it. 1663 01:09:42,074 --> 01:09:43,179 WOMAN: So you would watch it today? 1664 01:09:43,213 --> 01:09:44,594 Yes, sure. 1665 01:09:44,628 --> 01:09:45,733 I'd probably give it a shot. 1666 01:09:45,767 --> 01:09:46,906 Yeah, I'd probably watch it. 1667 01:09:46,941 --> 01:09:48,287 Yes, I would. Yes, I would. 1668 01:09:48,322 --> 01:09:49,530 Oh, yeah, of course. 1669 01:09:49,564 --> 01:09:51,877 Tomorrow, the next day, and the next day on. 1670 01:09:51,911 --> 01:09:52,981 -Yeah. -Yeah. 1671 01:09:53,016 --> 01:09:54,051 Yeah! 1672 01:09:54,086 --> 01:09:55,191 -Yeah. -Yeah. 1673 01:09:55,225 --> 01:09:56,847 -Yeah. -I'd probably be interested. 1674 01:09:56,882 --> 01:09:58,228 I would. 1675 01:09:58,263 --> 01:09:59,574 -WOMAN: Tomorrow? -Tomorrow. 1676 01:09:59,609 --> 01:10:00,955 -The next day? -Exactly. 1677 01:10:00,989 --> 01:10:03,268 Historically it will be viewed as one of 1678 01:10:03,302 --> 01:10:04,993 the most important shows in television. 1679 01:10:05,028 --> 01:10:06,581 If more shows like Arrested Development 1680 01:10:06,616 --> 01:10:09,550 were on television, then TV would be good, and not just 1681 01:10:09,584 --> 01:10:10,999 a guilty pleasure. 1682 01:10:11,034 --> 01:10:13,070 It really was lightning in a bottle. 1683 01:10:13,105 --> 01:10:15,107 This combination of 1684 01:10:15,141 --> 01:10:16,660 a brilliant cast, 1685 01:10:16,695 --> 01:10:18,628 a really original idea, 1686 01:10:18,662 --> 01:10:20,664 it's such a rare convergence. 1687 01:10:20,699 --> 01:10:22,770 It's a god [BLEEP] shame. I really feel bad for anybody 1688 01:10:22,804 --> 01:10:24,772 who's a big fan of TV who 1689 01:10:24,806 --> 01:10:26,118 hasn't seen Arrested Development. 1690 01:10:26,152 --> 01:10:27,913 Arrested Development was the show 1691 01:10:27,947 --> 01:10:30,260 that could have changed the face of 1692 01:10:30,295 --> 01:10:31,779 American television. 1693 01:10:31,813 --> 01:10:33,505 It just never got the chance. 1694 01:10:33,539 --> 01:10:37,302 And, um, I think it will be viewed as such 1695 01:10:37,336 --> 01:10:39,545 in the annals of television history. 1696 01:10:39,580 --> 01:10:41,616 I hate the words "ground-breaking," 1697 01:10:41,651 --> 01:10:43,687 but really, I mean. Come on. 1698 01:10:43,722 --> 01:10:45,241 It was ground-breaking. 1699 01:10:45,275 --> 01:10:47,312 I'm really proud to say I have any involvement 1700 01:10:47,346 --> 01:10:48,934 in Arrested Development. 1701 01:10:48,968 --> 01:10:51,799 It was pretty damn funny if I do say so. 1702 01:10:51,833 --> 01:10:54,008 I think Peter Chernin once called it, uh, us, a 1703 01:10:54,042 --> 01:10:56,769 a noble experiment. Or, you know, even he said 1704 01:10:56,804 --> 01:11:00,670 "We're proud of the show, it was worth... It was worth it." 1705 01:11:00,704 --> 01:11:04,639 You know, it was just a [BLEEP] [BLEEP] pleasure. 1706 01:11:04,674 --> 01:11:06,676 CREWMAN: Describe the show in one word. 1707 01:11:07,677 --> 01:11:09,092 Oh... [SIGHS] 1708 01:11:13,752 --> 01:11:15,236 Phew. 1709 01:11:15,271 --> 01:11:16,548 Threw a curveball there. 1710 01:11:19,033 --> 01:11:20,172 Smart. 1711 01:11:20,206 --> 01:11:21,449 Insane. 1712 01:11:21,484 --> 01:11:22,692 Hilarious. 1713 01:11:22,726 --> 01:11:24,797 -Brilliant. -Visionary. 1714 01:11:24,832 --> 01:11:26,903 -Perfect. -Complex. 1715 01:11:27,731 --> 01:11:29,492 The song Tennessee. 1716 01:11:29,526 --> 01:11:31,148 I mean, I wish it wasn't so. 1717 01:11:31,183 --> 01:11:33,012 But they were first. 1718 01:11:34,048 --> 01:11:35,152 Family. 1719 01:11:35,187 --> 01:11:36,292 Rest in peace. 1720 01:11:37,258 --> 01:11:38,294 Good evening. 1721 01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:40,296 The end. 1722 01:11:44,196 --> 01:11:46,992 I love the fans of Arrested Development. 1723 01:11:47,026 --> 01:11:49,995 There really is something about the kind of people 1724 01:11:50,858 --> 01:11:52,238 who love the show. 1725 01:11:52,273 --> 01:11:55,414 The Aztec tomb, saw this on eBay, and this is 1726 01:11:55,449 --> 01:11:57,761 sort of the first big purchase I made. 1727 01:11:57,796 --> 01:12:00,419 As you can see, the revolving door does work. 1728 01:12:00,454 --> 01:12:01,627 It's a tight squeeze. 1729 01:12:01,662 --> 01:12:04,527 I've never met a person who said "Hey, I love that show" 1730 01:12:04,561 --> 01:12:06,908 that I didn't like. And it's not an ego thing, because 1731 01:12:06,943 --> 01:12:09,808 I have met people who have liked Golden Girlswho I just 1732 01:12:09,842 --> 01:12:11,016 wanna punch in the face. 1733 01:12:11,050 --> 01:12:12,811 I have this water bottle from Army. 1734 01:12:12,845 --> 01:12:15,710 The infamous Girls with High Self Esteem. 1735 01:12:15,745 --> 01:12:18,023 And then I have Kitty's sunglasses. 1736 01:12:18,610 --> 01:12:19,852 Up here, Michael. 1737 01:12:19,887 --> 01:12:22,510 This one old lady couldn't shut up about it the other day. 1738 01:12:22,545 --> 01:12:24,409 I was like "God, you smell like death!" 1739 01:12:24,443 --> 01:12:27,619 The Cornballer is a culinary wonder machine. 1740 01:12:27,653 --> 01:12:30,242 It's something like a deep fryer, 1741 01:12:30,276 --> 01:12:32,486 and, uh, it's very dangerous. 1742 01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,281 So I would always enjoy these conversations that I'd have 1743 01:12:35,316 --> 01:12:38,561 with the fans. Because you know, they got it. 1744 01:12:38,595 --> 01:12:39,734 They got it. 1745 01:12:39,769 --> 01:12:42,841 Arrested fans rarely smell like death. 1746 01:12:45,637 --> 01:12:48,916 [CLAPPING, HOLLERING] 1747 01:12:57,131 --> 01:12:59,271 [MAKING CHICKEN NOISES] 1748 01:13:48,803 --> 01:13:53,532 [MAKING CHICKEN NOISES]